noun [U]
1 (old-fashioned) the state of having a serious mental illness
SYNINSANITY:
There may be a link between madness and creativity.
2 crazy or stupid behaviour that could be dangerous:
It would be sheer madness to trust a man like that. * In a moment of madness she had agreed to go out with him.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for madness is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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