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English noun: madness | |||
| 1. | madness (state) obsolete terms for legal insanity | ||
| Synonyms | insaneness, lunacy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | insanity | ||
| 2. | madness (state) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | ||
| Synonyms | hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | zoonosis, zoonotic disease | ||
| 3. | madness (feeling) a feeling of intense anger | ||
| Samples | Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. His face turned red with rage. | ||
| Synonyms | fury, rage | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | anger, choler, ire | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | lividity, wrath | ||
| 4. | madness (cognition) the quality of being rash and foolish | ||
| Samples | Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly. Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness. | ||
| Synonyms | craziness, folly, foolishness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | stupidity | ||
| 5. | madness (attribute) unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm | ||
| Samples | Poetry is a sort of divine madness. | ||
| Synonyms | rabidity, rabidness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance | ||
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