madness
/mˈædnʌs/
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Noun
obsolete terms for legal insanity
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
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a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"
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the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"
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unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness"