Mental derangement, insanity, mania, frenzy, lunacy, craziness: = madness, n. 2.

Madness; = woodness, n.

Madness.

(a) madness; (b) in for wood (see for-, prefix1 affix 2a), ‘like mad’, madly, furiously.

Madness, extreme folly.

In extended use (of a natural force or agent). Ferocity, violent action, or ‘fury’ (of natural forces or bodies, as the wind, weather, sea, etc.)…

Madness, insanity. Cf. dementia, n. 1. Obsolete.

Insanity; mental illness or impairment, esp. of a severe kind; (later esp.) psychosis; an instance of this. Also spec. (now rare): rabies.

figurative. Agitation or disorder of the mind likened to madness; a state of delirious fury, rage, enthusiasm, or the like; also, wild folly…

Madness.

The action of mad, v.; madness; mad behaviour. By the 19th cent., only in phrases (archaic or regional) to go (also †run, set) a-madding (or †on ma…

Derangement of mental faculties or processes; madness, insanity; delirium; an instance or episode of this. In later use more fully mental alienation…

Madness, esp. in Scots Law (see quot. 1882). brieve of furiosity: a brieve, n. directing an inquiry as to a person's sanity.

Madness.

Madness.

The quality or state of being furious; madness, fury.

= unwitting, n. 2.

Unsoundness of mind; insanity.

Madness; infatuation.

Madness.

The state of being sick in the mind, mental illness or disturbance, madness.

The condition of being a lunatic; intermittent insanity such as was formerly supposed to be brought about by the changes of the moon; now applied gen.…

Madness, insanity (= amentia, n. 1a); an instance of this.

Distractedness, distraction.

The action of making a person demented; the fact or condition of being demented; madness.

The condition of being insane; unsoundness of mind as a consequence of brain-disease; madness, lunacy. Originally, called insanity of mind.

The state of being crazed; infirmity of body or mind.

abstract. Madness, lunacy. Also as interjection.

Medicine. Originally: insanity, esp. when primarily affecting thinking and judgement; (also) absence or impairment of intellectual faculties. In…

A making or becoming insane; insane condition.

Insanity; a person of unsound mind. Obsolete.

Mental derangement; craziness, madness, insanity. Obsolete (except as involved in preceding; cf. distract, v. 5 6, distracted, adj. 4 5).

Mental derangement, insanity.

Insanity, madness.

(See quot. 1656.)

fanaticalness.

Unsoundness of mind; insanity. Originally (Law) in non-sanity of memory. Cf. non-sane, adj.

madness.

Unsoundness of mind.

In etymological sense: Dread or horror of water. Also figurative madness.

= vecordy, n.

Disturbance of the functions of the mind; mental disorder; insanity.

Mental derangement, esp. of a particular type (see quot. 1842).

(a) a mild eccentricity or mental disturbance in a person; something wrong in one's way of thinking; frequently in to have a screw loose; †(b)…

The quality of being mentally unsound.

Craziness, insanity; a crazy condition.

Medicine and Psychology. Originally: any kind of disordered mental state or mental illness. Later: spec. severe mental illness, characterized by loss…

The quality of being ‘cracky’; craziness.

The state or quality of being fey.

A flaw of the brain; a craze, unsoundness of mind.

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

Australian slang. In plural. Used allusively with reference to the supposed destruction of the brain by white ants, implying loss of sanity…

Unsoundness of mind, craziness.

The state or condition of being potty; silliness, madness, craziness.

craziness, insanity.

the state or quality of being ‘wacky’; craziness, oddness.

(a) crazy or eccentric behaviour; lunacy (cf. sense B. 1); (b) Film the screwball style of comedy (see sense B. 2).

figurative. A mental twist; an odd or fantastic notion; a crotchet, whim. In recent use also = a state of madness; an instance of, the practice of…