Search Result for "lunacy":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. obsolete terms for legal insanity;
[syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness]
2. foolish or senseless behavior;
[syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lunacy \Lu"na*cy\, n.; pl. Lunacies. [See Lunatic.] 1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. --Brande. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. --Dr. H. More. Syn: Derangement; craziness; mania. See Insanity. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
97 Moby Thesaurus words for "lunacy": aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, asininity, battiness, brain damage, brainlessness, brainsickness, buffoonery, clouded mind, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, desipience, disorientation, distraction, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folie, folly, foolery, foolhardiness, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, furor, giddiness, goofiness, idiocy, illogic, illogicality, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindlessness, mindsickness, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, oddness, pixilation, possession, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, ridiculousness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, silliness, strangeness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism
