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insanity - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | insanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental illness; foolishness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, lunacy, madness, mania, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, unbalance, craziness, irrationality, irresponsibility, mental disorder, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unreasonableness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | balance, sanity, soundness, wellness |
| Main Entry: | absurdity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridiculous situation or behavior |
| Synonyms: | applesauce*, bull*, farce, folly, foolishness, hot air*, idiocy, improbability, inanity, incongruity, insanity, jazz*, silliness, stupidity, BS, crap, craziness, flapdoodle, illogicality, illogicalness, irrationality, jive*, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, senselessness, unreasonableness |
| Antonyms: | logic, reason, sense, reasonableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delirium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | madness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ardor, dementia, derangement, ecstasy, enthusiasm, fervor, fever, frenzy, furor, fury, hallucination, hysteria, insanity, lunacy, mania, passion, rage, raving, transport, zeal |
| Antonyms: | balance, calmness, saneness |
| Main Entry: | dementia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | senility |
| Synonyms: | Alzheimer's disease, derangement, insanity, madness, mental decay, mental deterioration, mental disorder, personality change, softening of the brain, unbalance |
| Main Entry: | foolishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiocy, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, bunk*, claptrap*, folly, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, lunacy, mistake, poppycock*, preposterousness, rubbish*, silliness, stupidity, twaddle, weakness, absurdness, carrying-on, craziness, dumb trick, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, senselessness, tommyrot, unreasonableness, unwiseness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | care, caution, prudence, sense, seriousness, thoughtfulness, carefulness, circumspection, wiseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frenzy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncontrolled state or situation |
| Synonyms: | aberration, agitation, blow, blow a fuse, blow one's cork, blow one's stack, blow one's top, bout, burst, conniption, convulsion, craze, delirium, derangement, distemper, distraction, dithers, excitement, ferment, fever, fit, flap*, flip one's lid, free-for-all*, furor, fury, fuss, hell broke loose, hysteria, insanity, lather, lunacy, madness, mania, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rage, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, seizure, spasm, stew, stir, to-do*, transport, turmoil, wingding |
| Antonyms: | calmness, peace, peacefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idiocy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utter stupidity |
| Synonyms: | derangement, fatuity, foolishness, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, tomfoolery, asininity, cretinism, fatuousness, imbecility, insipidity, senselessness |
| Antonyms: | intelligence, brains |
| Main Entry: | lunacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, madness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, absurdity, alienation, dementia, derangement, distraction, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbalance, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, mania, silliness, stupidity, asininity, foolhardiness, imbecility, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness |
| Antonyms: | saneness |
| Main Entry: | mania |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation, madness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ax to grind*, bee*, bug*, compulsion, craving, craze, delirium, dementia, derangement, desire, disorder, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fascination, fetish, frenzy, furor, hang-up*, idée fixe, infatuation, insanity, lunacy, obsession, partiality, passion, preoccupation, rage, thing, tiger*, bee in bonnet, bug in ear, craziness, fixed idea, grabber, monomania, on the brain, tiger by the tail |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mental illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional disorder |
| Synonyms: | depression, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, nervous breakdown, neurosis, phobia, craziness, delusions, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, loss of mind, maladjustment, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous disorder, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind |
| Main Entry: | monkey business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shenanigans |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, disobedience, foolishness, hanky-panky, high jinks, horseplay, inanity, insanity, lunacy, misbehavior, mischief, monkeyshine, nonsense, poppycock*, prank, silliness, stupidity, absurdness, antics, buffoonery, carrying-on, clowning around, craziness, foolery, hokey-pokey, horse feathers, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, mischief-making, tommyrot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, mental illness, obsession, phobia, crack-up, maladjustment, neurasthenia, personality disorder, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | tomfoolery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, bunk, folly, foolishness, fun, high jinks, horseplay, insanity, joking, lunacy, madness, shenanigans*, silliness, antics, carrying-on, clowning, craziness, foolery, fooling around, funny business, giddiness, irresponsibility, kidding around, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, senselessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychological problem |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, fear, fixation, hang-up*, idée fixe, insanity, mania, neurosis, obsession, phobia, preoccupation, repression, a thing about something, exaggerated reaction, fixed idea |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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