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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
madness
    n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy,
         madness, insaneness]
    2: 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 [syn:
       rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
    3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
       scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
       rage, madness]
    4: the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive
       through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an
       insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly,
       foolishness, craziness, madness]
    5: unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of
       divine madness" [syn: madness, rabidity, rabidness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Madness \Mad"ness\, n. [From Mad, a.]
   1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Extreme folly.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy;
        mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration;
        alienation; monomania. See Insanity.
        [1913 Webster]

3. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Madness
   This word is used in its proper sense in Deut. 28:34, John
   10:20, 1 Cor. 14:23. It also denotes a reckless state of mind
   arising from various causes, as over-study (Eccl. 1:17; 2:12),
   blind rage (Luke 6:11), or a depraved temper (Eccl. 7:25; 9:3; 2
   Pet. 2:16). David feigned madness (1 Sam. 21:13) at Gath because
   he "was sore afraid of Achish."
   

Thesaurus Results for Madness:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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