Insanity - English meaning

abbreviation

Community of the resurrection.

abbreviation

Councillor.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 24, a hard white metal used in stainless steel and other alloys.

noun

Mad, wild, or erratic behaviour or nature.

Usage examples:

He loves me and all of my craziness

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Stupid and unreasonable behaviour, speech, situations, etc.

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A moment's craziness had lost him his wife and his job., the public wants to stop the craziness of …

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An acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders.

Usage examples:

Somewhere a patient shouted in delirium

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A state of being unable to think or speak clearly because of fever or mental confusion

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Fever accompanied by delirium, i've never seen such delirium at a football game before.

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A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.

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Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement.

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The anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s

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Excitement or emotion that is uncontrollable

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One woman, close to hysteria, grabbed my arm.

noun

The state of being unstable; lack of stability.

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Political and economic instability

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The condition of being likely to change, esp. unexpectedly

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Teenagers often go through periods of emotional instability.

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The fact of a situation being likely to change, in a way that is worrying, or the changes that happen

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Political/economic instability investors should keep in mind the political and economic instability…

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The state of being a lunatic; insanity (not in technical use).

Usage examples:

It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy

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Extreme foolishness or mental illness

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It would be lunacy to try and climb the mountain in this weather.

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The state of having a serious mental illness.

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In his madness he destroyed the work of years

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Mental illness

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There was a history of madness in her family., it would be sheer madness (= crazy) to ignore the sy…

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Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.

Usage examples:

Many people suffering from mania do not think anything is wrong

combining form

Denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession.

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Kleptomania

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A unusually strong and continuing interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

He was surprised by his wife’s sudden mania for exercise.

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A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

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They were suffering from a psychosis

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A severe mental illness

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Psychotic delusions