madness

English

Etymology

From Middle English madnes, madnesse; equivalent to mad +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæd.nəs/, /ˈmæd.nɪs/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmad.nəs/
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(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛd.nɘs/
Rhymes: (US) -ædnəs

Noun

madness (countable and uncountable, plural madnesses)

The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insanity
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 261, column 2:
  Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […]
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
  Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
  Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
  Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
  Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
The state of being angry.
rash folly

Antonyms

sanity

Translations

insanity

Albanian: marrëzi (sq) f
Arabic: جُنُون‎ (ar) m (junūn)
Egyptian Arabic: جنون‎ m (gunūn)
Armenian: խելագարություն (hy) (xelagarutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: dəlilik
Belarusian: шале́нства n (šaljénstva), вар'я́цтва n (varʺjáctva)
Bulgarian: лу́дост (bg) f (lúdost), безу́мие (bg) n (bezúmie)
Catalan: bogeria (ca) f, follia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狂 (zh) (kuáng), 瘋病／疯病 (zh) (fēngbìng), 精神錯亂／精神错乱 (zh) (jīngshéncuòluàn)
Czech: šílenství (cs) n, šílenost f
Danish: galskab c, sindssyge c, vanvid n
Dutch: krankzinnigheid (nl) f, waanzin (nl) m
Esperanto: frenezeco
Estonian: hullumeelsus
Finnish: hulluus (fi)
French: folie (fr) f
Galician: loucura (gl) f, tolería (gl) f, tolemia (gl) f, doudice f, folía f, vesania f, tolén f
Georgian: სიგიჟე (sigiže), სულით ავადმყოფობა (sulit avadmq̇opoba)
German: Wahnsinn (de) m, Verrücktheit (de) f
Greek: παραφροσύνη (el) f (parafrosýni), τρέλα (el) f (tréla)
Ancient: μανία f (manía)
Hebrew: שִׁגָּעוֹן‎ (he) m (shiga'ón), טֵרוּף‎ (he) m (terúf)
Hindi: पागलपन (hi) m (pāgalpan)
Hungarian: őrület (hu), őrültség (hu)
Icelandic: brjálæði (is) n
Indonesian: kegilaan (id)
Italian: pazzia (it) f, follia (it) f
Japanese: 狂気 (ja) (きょうき, kyōki)
Kazakh: ақылсыздық (aqylsyzdyq)
Korean: 광기(狂氣) (ko) (gwanggi)
Kyrgyz: жиндилик (ky) (jindilik)
Latin: vēsānia f, insānia f, insānitās f, vēcordia f, dēmentia f, amentia
Latvian: ārprāts m, vājprāts m, trakums m
Lithuanian: beprotybė f, pamišimas m
Macedonian: лудило n (ludilo), лудост f (ludost)
Malayalam: ഭ്രാന്ത് (ml) (bhrāntŭ), വട്ട് (ml) (vaṭṭŭ), കിറുക്ക് (ml) (kiṟukkŭ)
Manx: meecheeallid m
Middle English: madnesse
Norwegian:
Bokmål: galskap (no) m
Occitan: foliá (oc) f
Old English: wōdnes f
Persian: دیوانگی‎ (fa) (divânegi)
Plautdietsch: Wonsenn m
Polish: szaleństwo (pl) n, obłęd (pl) m, świr (pl) m (colloquial), fioł (pl) m (colloquial), szajba (pl) f (expressive), niepoczytalność (pl) f, kręciek m (old), wariactwo (pl) n, amok (pl) m
Portuguese: loucura (pt) f, insanidade f, maluquice (pt) f, malucagem f, vesânia (pt) f, doidice (pt) f, doideira (pt) f
Romanian: nebunie (ro) f
Russian: безу́мие (ru) n (bezúmije), сумасше́ствие (ru) n (sumasšéstvije), помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo), безу́мство (ru) n (bezúmstvo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лу̏дост f, лу̀дило n, порѐмећено̄ст f

Roman: lȕdost (sh) f, lùdilo (sh) n, porèmećenōst f
Slovak: šialenstvo n, šialenosť f
Slovene: norost (sl) f, blaznost f
Spanish: locura (es) f
Swedish: vansinne (sv) n, vanvett (sv) n, galenskap (sv) c
Tajik: девонагӣ (devonagī)
Telugu: పిచ్చి (te) (picci)
Turkish: delilik (tr)
Ukrainian: божеві́лля (uk) n (boževíllja), безу́мство n (bezúmstvo), безу́мність (uk) f (bezúmnistʹ), шале́ність f (šalénistʹ), навіже́ність f (navižénistʹ), варія́ція f (varijácija)

rash folly

Chinese:
Mandarin: 蠢事 (zh) (chǔnshì)
Danish: galskab c, vanvid n
Finnish: hulluus (fi)
Galician: tolemia (gl) f
Hungarian: őrültség (hu)
Kabuverdianu: asnera
Middle English: madnesse
Portuguese: loucura (pt) f
Russian: помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo)
Swedish: vansinne (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} folie (fr)
German: ^{(please verify)} Tollheit (de) f
Ido: ^{(please verify)} foleso (io)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} follia (it), ^{(please verify)} pazzia (it), ^{(please verify)} insanità
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} galskap (no)
Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} macchìghine, ^{(please verify)} macchìne
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} sinnesgalenskap

Anagrams

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