English > insanity: 1 sense > noun 1, stateMeaning | relatively permanent / permanent disorder of the mind. |
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Narrower | craziness, daftness, flakiness | informal terms for insanity |
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dementia, dementedness | mental deterioration of organic or functional origin |
derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalance | A state of mental disturbance and disorientation |
irrationality, unreason | The state of being irrational |
lunacy, madness, insaneness | obsolete terms for legal insanity |
Broader | mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy | Any disease of the mind |
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Opposite | sanity, saneness | normal or sound powers of mind |
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Spanish | enajenación mental, insania, locura |
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Catalan | alienació mental, bogeria, follia, insània |
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Adjectives | insane | afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement |
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