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Madness

//ˈmæd.nəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease. uncountable, usually

    "Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […]"

  2. 2
    unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being angry. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    the quality of being rash and foolish wordnet
  5. 5
    Rash folly. uncountable, usually
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  1. 6
    a feeling of intense anger wordnet
  2. 7
    an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain wordnet
  3. 8
    obsolete terms for legal insanity wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English madnes, madnesse; equivalent to mad + -ness.

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