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Lunacy

//ˈluː.nə.si// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being mad, insanity; A cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    foolish or senseless behavior wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being mad, insanity; Insanity implying legal irresponsibility. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    obsolete terms for legal insanity wordnet
  5. 5
    Something deeply misguided. countable, uncountable

    "Two days have passed since that day of lunacy. What a noise and a fuss and a chattering and an uproar there was! And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners! And I the cause of it all! Yet part of the scene was also ridiculous—at all events to myself it was so."

Etymology

From lunatic + -cy.

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