English-Thai Dictionary

madness

N ความวิกลจริต  ความบ้า  ความคลั่ง  kwam-wi-tok-kang-won

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MADNESS

n.[from mad. ] Distraction; a state of disordered reason or intellect, in which the patient raves or is furious. There are degrees of madness as of folly.
1. Extreme folly; headstrong passion and rashness that act in opposition to reason; as the madness of a mob.
2. Wildness of passion; fury; rage; as the madness of despair.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MADNESS

Mad "ness, n. Etym: [From Mad, a.]

 

1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

 

2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

 

Syn. -- Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See Insanity.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

madness

mad ness |ˈmadnəs ˈmædnəs | ▶noun the state of being mentally ill, esp. severely. • extremely foolish behavior: it is madness to allow children to roam around after dark. • a state of frenzied or chaotic activity: from about midnight to three in the morning it's absolute madness in here.

 

Oxford Dictionary

madness

mad |ness |ˈmadnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state of having a serious mental illness. • extremely foolish behaviour: it is madness to allow children to roam around after dark | [ count noun ] : the new laws are a madness. • a state of wild or chaotic activity: at midnight it's absolute madness in here.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

madness

madness noun 1 today madness is called mental illness: insanity, mental illness, dementia, derangement; lunacy, instability; mania, psychosis; informal craziness. ANTONYMS sanity. 2 it would be madness to do otherwise: folly, foolishness, idiocy, stupidity, insanity, lunacy, silliness; informal craziness. ANTONYMS common sense, good sense. 3 it's absolute madness in here: bedlam, mayhem, chaos, pandemonium, craziness, uproar, turmoil, disorder, all hell broken loose, (three-ring ) circus. ANTONYMS calm.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

madness

madness noun 1 today madness is called mental illness: insanity, insaneness, dementia, mental illness, derangement, dementedness, instability, unsoundness of mind, lunacy, distraction, depression, mania, hysteria, frenzy, psychosis, psychopathy, schizophrenia, hydrophobia; informal craziness; N. Amer. informal meshugaas; Austral. /NZ informal dingbats; rare moon-madness, cynanthropy, deliration, lycanthropy, zoanthropy. ANTONYMS sanity. 2 it would be madness to do otherwise: folly, foolishness, stupidity, insanity, lunacy, midsummer madness, foolhardiness, idiocy, imprudence, irrationality, unreasonableness, illogicality, senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, absurdness, absurdity, silliness, inanity, ludicrousness, wildness, preposterousness; informal craziness; Brit. informal daftness. ANTONYMS common sense, good sense. 3 it's absolute madness in here: bedlam, mayhem, chaos, pandemonium, babel, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, disorder, hurly-burly; scene of confusion, madhouse, tumult, jumble, pell-mell, hullabaloo, hubbub, whirlwind, maelstrom, all hell broken loose; N. Amer. informal three-ring circus.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

madness

mad ness /mǽdnəs /名詞 U 1 ｟主に英 やや古 ｠狂気 (!専門的には insanity ) .2 ｟主に英 ｠狂気のさた ; 愚の骨頂 ▸ It's sheer madness to do such a thing .そんなことをするのはまったく狂気のさただ ▸ in a moment [fit ] of madness 思わず, 衝動的に 3 激怒 .4 〖時にa ～〗熱狂, 夢中 .5 狂犬病 (rabies ).