Madness - English meaning

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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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A medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour

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The most common form of dementia is alzheimer's disease.

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Feelings of severe despondency and dejection.

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Self-doubt creeps in and that swiftly turns to depression

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A feeling of sadness, or medical a type of mental illness that causes long periods of unhappiness

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I’m just beginning to get over the depression from losing my job., medical tiredness, loss of appet…

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A recession (= time of low economic activity, when investments lose value, businesses fail and people lose their jobs) that lasts for a long period of time, usually several years

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Plunge/slide into depression the thirties saw the world plunge into depression., the wall street cr…

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The state of being completely unable to think clearly or behave in a controlled way, especially because of mental illness

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She had a history of mental derangement, he returned from the war in a state of furious derangement.

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A thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else.

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The firm found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight

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The state of being very bored or annoyed

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His lessons bore me to distraction., that dreadful noise is driving me to distraction., i can turn …

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Something that prevents someone from giving their attention to something else

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I can turn the television off if you find it a distraction.

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A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour.

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Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage

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Excited, uncontrollable, and sometimes violent behavior or emotion

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[ c usually sing ] duncan’s game-winning shot sent the crowd into a frenzy., [ c usually sing ] the…

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(an example of) uncontrolled and excited behaviour or emotion that is sometimes violent

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Frenzy of in a frenzy of rage she hit him., the media frenzy over the celebrity wedding, work yours…

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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.

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The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.

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He suffered from bouts of insanity

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Mental illness

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The jury found him innocent on the grounds of temporary insanity.

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A very stupid, unreasonable, or dangerous action or situation

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It would be insanity to expand the business now., she spoke about the insanity of giving social med…

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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).

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

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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

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

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Mental illness or disorder.

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By contrast, in someone with anti-social personality disorder, psychopathy, the disorder is the per…

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The condition of being a psychopath

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Dr. hare created one of the most authoritative models for detecting psychopathy.

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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

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A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

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The appellant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which is a mental illness within the meaning of t…

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The fact of not being good enough, acceptable, or able to be trusted

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The company's financial unsoundness had been hidden from the shareholders., the unsoundness of this…