Word Type

Noun

The word "insanity" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

sanity sanity

Causes Desire

advance into battle kill kill people run in marathon scuba dive wage war

Coordinate Terms

unsanity

Derived Terms

Linsanity masturbational insanity masturbatory insanity

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

condition deviance disorder illness mental disease mental illness psychopathy state

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

bipolar disorder dementia praecox depression disorganized schizophrenia hebephrenia hysteria macromania mania manic depression megalomania monomania neurosis paranoid schizophrenia psychosis schizophrenia

Type Of (IsA)

mental illness

Parts (Meronyms)

acataphasia akathisia amnesia aphasia catalepsy catatonia codependency delirium delusion dysphasia dysphoria echolalia formication fugue state glossolalia hallucination heterolalia hypermnesia idée fixe monophasia neolalia obsession palilalia paramnesia paranoia paranomia paraphasia paresis paresthesia phrenesis schizophasia total recall word salad

Related Terms

:Category:en:Clinical psychology addiction anxiety behavioral crisis complex delusion of grandeur dementia ecstasy fixation frenzy general paresis of the insane hypochondria hypochondriasis insane kleptomania lypemania mad person maladjustment malaise neurasthenia nosomania nympholepsy phobia phrenitis psychasthenia psychopathology pyromania repression senility

Related Terms

insane madness

Synonym Network

madness

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