madness
(noun)
noun
1. obsolete terms for legal insanity
Similar word(s): insaneness, lunacy
Definition categories: state, insanity
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
Similar word(s): hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies
Definition categories: state, zoonosis
3. a feeling of intense anger
Definition categories: feeling, anger, choler, ire
4. the quality of being rash and foolish
Similar word(s): craziness, folly, foolishness
Definition categories: thought, stupidity
5. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
- poetry is a sort of divine madness
Similar word(s): rabidity, rabidness
Definition categories: attribute, ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance