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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. obsolete terms for legal insanity;
[syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness]

2. 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;
[syn: rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]

3. a feeling of intense anger;
- Example: "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
- Example: "his face turned red with rage"
[syn: fury, rage, madness]

4. the quality of being rash and foolish;
- Example: "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"
- Example: "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"
[syn: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness]

5. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm;
- Example: "poetry is a sort of divine madness"
[syn: madness, rabidity, rabidness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Madness \Mad"ness\, n. [From Mad, a.]
   1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
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   2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage.
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   3. Extreme folly.
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   Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy;
        mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration;
        alienation; monomania. See Insanity.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

madness
    n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy,
         madness, insaneness]
    2: 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 [syn:
       rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
    3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
       scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
       rage, madness]
    4: the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive
       through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an
       insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly,
       foolishness, craziness, madness]
    5: unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of
       divine madness" [syn: madness, rabidity, rabidness]