madness
noun
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Sense 1 noun
obsolete terms for legal insanity
Types & categories
- insanity hypernym
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Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- zoonosis hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a feeling of intense anger
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
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Sense 4 noun
the quality of being rash and foolish
trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly
Types & categories
- stupidity hypernym
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- dotty derivation
- foolish derivation
- harebrained derivation
Sense 5 noun
unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
poetry is a sort of divine madness
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- ebullience hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | insane |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | crazy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lunatic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | insanity |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | zoonosis |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | infuriate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rage |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | storm |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | angered |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | mad |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | anger |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wrath |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lividity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dotty |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | foolish |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | harebrained |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | stupidity |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | fanatic |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | frantic |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | ebullience |