| 单词 | insanity |
| 释义 | insanity (once / 998 pages) n Insanity is an ongoing state of extreme mental illness, which may cause abnormal or antisocial behaviors. If you bark at cats and meow at dogs, you might suffer from insanity. The noun insanity originates from the Latin word insanitatem, meaning "unhealthfulness" relating to the mind. It is believed that master artist Vincent van Gogh, who cut off his ear and gave it to a prostitute, experienced periods of insanity. But this term can also refer to things people perceive as unconventional or foolish, like your neighbor who quit his job, sold all his belongings, and bought a boat to sail around the world. WORD FAMILYinsanity: insanities+/insane: insanely, insaneness, insaner, insanest, insanity/sane: insane, sanely, saneness, saner, sanest, sanity/sanity: sanities USAGE EXAMPLESA few years ago, Ms. Billingsley was reduced to what she, herself, considered an act of insanity. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) “It just shouldn’t be rising at 30 percent a year. That’s where you cross the line into insanity.” Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) And the US president elect predicted the "insanity" of the project would bankrupt Scotland, and destroy Mr Salmond's hopes for Scottish independence. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) n relatively permanent disorder of the mind Ant|Hypo|Hyper saneness, sanity normal or sound powers of mind insaneness, lunacy, madness obsolete terms for legal insanity dementedness, dementiamental deterioration of organic or functional origin irrationality, unreasonthe state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalancea state of mental disturbance and disorientation craziness, daftness, flakinessinformal terms for insanity Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, polyneuritic psychosisdementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact presenile dementiadementia with onset before the age of 65 senile dementia, senile psychosisdementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention |
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