Madness
Pronunciation of Madness
/mˈadnəs/, /mˈadnəs/, /m_ˈa_d_n_ə_s/
Synonyms for madness:
Sense 1
psychopathy, brainsickness, silliness, mental illness, senselessness.
Sense 2
preposterousness, zaniness, nonsense.
Sense 3
absurdity, stunt.
Sense 7
confusion
folly
idiocy.
fury
Other synonyms and related words:
Asininity, fury, ferocity, mental illness, stunt, violence, silliness, wrathfulness, indulgence, dippiness, zaniness, angriness, anger, indignation, furore, vehemence, nonsense, spleen, tomfoolery, nonsensicalness, fad, outrage, passion, fatuity, idiocy, mood, imbecility, furor, wildness, Unwisdom, distraction, foolery, disturbance, unwiseness, brainlessness, stupidity, fatuousness, hydrophobia, furiousness, Birse, absurdity, fierceness, senselessness, insaneness, irateness, witlessness, alienation, wrath, psychopathy, aberration, cult, monomania, choler, foolishness, eumenides, folly, rage, brainsickness, inanity, wackiness, rabies, craze, preposterousness, daftness, lividity, betise, ire, lyssa.
Sense 2 (noun)
mental illness, brainsickness, stunt, disturbance, psychopathy.
Sense 3 (noun)
preposterousness, silliness, senselessness, idiocy, zaniness, nonsense, absurdity.
emotional disorder (noun)
fanaticism (noun)
foolishness (noun)
imbecility (noun)
insanity (noun)
feverishness, foolishness, aberration, brain-sickness, hysteria, psychopathy, insanity, psychosis, absurdity, neurosis, derangement, craziness, mania, mental illness, kookiness, lunacy, frenzy, delirium, battiness, hallucination, stupidity, nuttiness, dementia.
madness (noun)
rabies, lyssa, lunacy, hydrophobia, rage, insaneness, fury.
psychopathy (noun)
tomfoolery (noun)
Usage examples for madness:
- I tell you, Geraldine, the former was saying, the action is madness. - "New-Arabian-Nights", Stevenson, Robert Louis.
- The very idea was madness! - "The Mystery of The Barranca", Herman Whitaker.
- " Her madness is only pretence," said Joos Damman. - "The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere", Charles de Coster.