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sanity - 8 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | sanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental health; soundness of judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, balance, common sense, comprehension, intelligence, lucidity, normality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sense, soundness, stability, understanding, wit, clear mind, good judgment, healthy mind, judiciousness, levelheadedness, lucidness, marbles, rationality, reasonableness, right mind, saneness, sound mind |
| Antonyms: | insanity, instability, madness, craziness, unsoundness |
| Main Entry: | logic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | science of reasoning |
| Synonyms: | coherence, connection, deduction, dialectic, induction, inference, philosophy, rationale, relationship, sanity, sense, sound judgment, syllogism, thesis, antithesis and synthesis, argumentation, course of thought, good sense, linkage, ratiocination, syllogistics, train of thought |
| Antonyms: | unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | wisdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, balance, caution, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, erudition, experience, foresight, gumption*, horse sense*, information, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, learning, penetration, perspicacity, poise, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savoir faire, savvy*, shrewdness, sophistication, stability, understanding, brains, circumspection, clear thinking, good judgment, judiciousness, pansophy, sageness, solidity |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit, brains, incisiveness, percipience, rationality, sharpness |
| Notes: | judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inanity, stupidity, misjudgment |
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
| Synonyms: | attention, brain*, capacity, cognizance, conception, consciousness, creativity, faculty, function, genius, head, imagination, ingenuity, instinct, intellect, intellectual, intuition, judgment, lucidity, mentality, observation, perception, power, psyche, reason, reasoning, regard, sanity, sense, soul, soundness, spirit, talent, thinker, thought, understanding, wisdom, apperception, brainpower, brains, intellectuality, marbles, percipience, ratiocination, wits |
| Antonyms: | body, corporeality, physicality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reason |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental analysis |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, brain*, comprehension, deduction, discernment, induction, inference, intellect, judgment, logic, lucidity, mentality, mind, moderation, propriety, reasoning, sanity, sense, soundness, speculation, understanding, wisdom, wit, argumentation, bounds, brains, dialectics, generalization, intellection, limits, marbles, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, reasonableness, saneness, senses, sensibleness, sound mind |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, perception |
| Synonyms: | ability, appreciation, atmosphere, aura, capacity, cleverness, cognizance, common sense, consciousness, discernment, discrimination, feel, feeling, gumption*, imagination, impression, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mentality, mind, premonition, presentiment, prudence, quickness, reason, reasoning, recognition, sagacity, sanity, sentiment, smarts*, soul, spirit, tact, thought, understanding, wisdom, wit, brains, clear-headedness, sharpness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wit/wits |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, intelligence |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, balance, cleverness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, esprit, grasp, ingenuity, insight, keenness, lucidity, mentality, mind, perception, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sanity, sapience, sense, shrewdness, soundness, understanding, wisdom, astucity, brainpower, brains, depth of perception, marbles, rationality, sagaciousness, sageness, saneness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
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