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madness

[ mad-nis ]

noun

  1. the state of being mad; insanity.
  2. senseless folly:

    It is sheer madness to speak as you do.

  3. frenzy; rage.
  4. intense excitement or enthusiasm.


madness

/ ˈ³¾Ã¦»å²Ôɪ²õ /

noun

  1. insanity; lunacy
  2. extreme anger, excitement, or foolishness
  3. a nontechnical word for rabies
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Origin of madness1

First recorded in 1350–1400, madness is from the Middle English word madnesse. See mad, -ness
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Idioms and Phrases

see method in one's madness .
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Example Sentences

If you speak to any fighter they aren't going to be doing any madness three hours before a bout.

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There are even flashes of Grace, the lonely shut-in mother of two in “The Others,†whose belief that her house is haunted causes her slow descent into madness.

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"A couple of years later they were reintroduced and it then just descended into madness."

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He extensively quotes both men's social media posts to "get a full sense of the madness," arguing they're both being consumed by their tendencies "to grandiosity, vindictiveness and paranoia."

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He said he should have walked away, adding: "I just saw red - a moment of madness which I will regret for the rest of my life."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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