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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > madness, extreme folly > [noun] (14)
woodnessc1000

Extravagant folly or recklessness; vehemence of passion or desire; wildness, infatuation. Cf. madness, n. 1.

woodhead1303

Madness, extreme folly.

madnessc1384

Imprudence, delusion, or (wild) foolishness resembling insanity; an instance of this.

ragec1390

Folly, rashness; an instance of this; a foolish act. Obsolete.

lunacya1592

transferred and figurative. Mad folly. Often in much weakened sense.

idiotism1592

= idiocy, n. 1. = idiocy, n. 1a(b). colloquial.

wittolry1592

Complaisant cuckoldry; hence, extreme folly.

midsummer madnessa1616

extreme foolishness (cf. midsummer moon n.).

hare-brainedness1656

idiotry1757

(a) Chiefly Scots Law. = idiocy, n. 1a(a). Now historical in technical sense. (b) = idiocy, n. 1a(b).

insanity1840

Extreme folly or want of sound sense; an instance of this.

meshugas1898

Esp. in Jewish usage: madness, craziness; nonsense, foolishness; (as a count noun) a foolish idea; a foible, an idiosyncracy.

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