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Unsane

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not sane, as:; Synonym of insane. usually

    "If only he didn’t feel so tired, so sick of everything, his father, this unsane country."

  2. 2
    Not sane, as:; In a state of maladaptive mental functioning that is not insane (that is, not mentally ill, or at least not clinically so) but is also not sane under a definition whereby sanity is highly adaptive cognition. especially, general

    "One of the hallmarks of maturity and personal adjustment, and an important difference between the highly sane person and the unsane person, is simply the conscious acceptance of responsibility for one's life."

Etymology

From un- + sane.

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