English-Thai Dictionary

insanity

N ความวิกลจริต  ความ มีสติ ไม่ปกติ  madness mania mental disorder kwam-wi-tok-ja-rid

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INSANITY

In *san "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite.]

 

1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

 

Syn. - Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia. Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

insanity

in san i ty |inˈsanitē ɪnˈsænədi | ▶noun the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness: he suffered from bouts of insanity | [ as complement ] : he attempted to plead insanity. • extreme foolishness or irrationality: it might be pure insanity to take this loan | the insanities of our time. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin insanitas, from insanus (see insane ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

insanity

in |san ¦ity |ɪnˈsanəti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness: he suffered from bouts of insanity. • extreme foolishness or irrationality: it might be pure insanity to take this loan | [ count noun ] : the insanities of our time. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin insanitas, from insanus (see insane ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

insanity

insanity noun 1 insanity runs in her family: mental illness, madness, dementia; lunacy, instability; mania, psychosis; informal craziness. 2 it would be insanity to take this loan: folly, foolishness, madness, idiocy, stupidity, lunacy, silliness; informal craziness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

insanity

insanity noun 1 insanity runs in her family: mental illness, mental disorder, mental derangement, madness, insaneness, dementia, dementedness, lunacy, instability, unsoundness of mind, loss of reason; delirium, hysteria, mania, psychosis; informal craziness; archaic crazedness; rare deliration. ANTONYMS sanity. 2 it would be pure insanity to take this loan: folly, foolishness, foolhardiness, idiocy, stupidity, imbecility, asininity, lunacy, madness, silliness, senselessness, brainlessness, thoughtlessness, irrationality, illogicality, absurdity, ludicrousness, ridiculousness; informal craziness; Brit. informal daftness. ANTONYMS sense. WORD LINKS insanity lyssophobia, maniphobia fear of insanity Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

insanity

in san i ty /ɪnsǽnəti /名詞 U 1 精神錯乱, 精神病 ; 〘主に法 〙精神異常 .2 狂気, きわめて無謀なふるまい .