insanity vs madness
madness vs insanityinsanity and madness both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| insanity | Yes | No | No | No |
| madness | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
madness is a hyponym of
insanity; that is, madness is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
insanity:
- insanity: relatively permanent disorder of the mind
- madness: obsolete terms for legal insanity
Other hyponyms of insanity include
insaneness, lunacy, dementedness, dementia, irrationality, unreason, derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalance, craziness, daftness, flakiness.
| insanity (noun) | madness (noun) |
|---|---|
| relatively permanent disorder of the mind | unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm |
| the quality of being rash and foolish | |
| a feeling of intense anger | |
| obsolete terms for legal insanity | |
| 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 |
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