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Definition: Madness |
MadnessNoun1. Obsolete terms for legal insanity. 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. 3. A feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "madness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Madness \Mad"ness\, noun. [From Mad,]. (references) |
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Bible | 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." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being mad, shows trouble ahead for the dreamer. Sickness, by which you will lose property, is threatened. To see others suffering under this malady, denotes inconstancy of friends and gloomy ending of bright expectations. For a young woman to dream of madness, foretells disappointment in marriage and wealth. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Madness In Perthshire there are several wells and springs dedicated to St. Fillan, which are still places of pilgrimage. These wells are held to be efficacious in cases of madness. Even recently lunatics have been bound to the holy stone at night, under the expectation that St. Fillan would release them before dawn, and send them home in their right minds. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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- mental illness
- insanity defense
- Madness (band)
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Madness were a British ska band of the 1980s.
Ska music became popular in the United Kingdom at the end of the 1970s, and one of its most popular proponents was the band Madness. The band was formed by Mike Barson (Monsieur Barson), Chris Foreman (Chrissy Boy) and Lee Thompson (Kix) in 1976, under the name The North London Invaders. They were joined in 1978 by front-man Graham McPherson (Suggs), Mark Bedford (Bedders), Karl (Chas Smash) and Danniel Woodgate (Woody), and after performing for a while as the Invaders changed their name to Madness.
Their first single, released on The Specials 2 Tone label, was "The Prince", a tribute to the ska musician Prince Buster. This was followed by the album One Step Beyond in 1979, which stayed in the British charts for over a year, peaking at number 2.
The band's first 20 singles all made it into the UK top 20, making them by this measure more successful than acts such as The Beatles and Elvis Presley. They had limited success in the USA, with one single ("Our House") and a compilation album (Madness) having significant sales. This was perhaps a result of their quirky style, and the limited marketplace for ska in the US.
The group split in 1986, following the departure of the main songwriter Mike Barson. The band has reformed with various members at various points since then to perform at concerts such as Glastonbury, and their own series of reunion concerts, christened "Madstock".
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For a discussion of the concept of "madness", see the article on insanity.
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A mental illness is a psychiatric disorder that results in a disruption in a person's thinking, feeling, moods, and ability to relate to others. Psychiatrists generally attribute mental illness to organic/neurochemical causes that can be treated with psychiatric medication, psychotherapy, lifestyle adjustments and other supportive measures. Compare rational-emotive therapy.
Mental illness is distinct from the legal concept of insanity.
Mental health, mental hygiene and mental wellness are all terms used to describe the absence of mental illness.
Advocacy organizations have been trying to change the common perception of psychiatric disorders as a sign of personal weakness and something to be ashamed of to an affliction akin to physical diseases (like the measles).
Prevalence of and diagnosis of mental illness
Mental illness is one of the most common causes of disability in the Western World. According to NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) an American advocacy organisation, twenty-three percent of North American adults will suffer from a clinically diagnosable mental illness in a given year, but less than half of them will suffer symptoms severe enough to disrupt their daily functioning. Approximately nine percent to 13 percent of children under the age of 18 experience a serious emotional disturbance with substantial functional impairment, and five percent to nine percent have a serious emotional disturbance with extreme functional impairment due to a mental illness. Many of these young people will recover from their illnesses before reaching adulthood, and go on to lead normal lives uncomplicated by illness.
Major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder all feature in the 'top ten' list of causes of disability in the Western World.
The treatment success rate for a first episode of schizophrenia is 60 percent, 65 percent to 70 percent for major depression, and 80 percent for bipolar disorder.
At the start of the 20th century there were only a dozen recognized mental illnesses. By 1952 there were 192 and the DSM-IV today lists 374. Depending on your perspective this could be seen to be
- due to some causative agent such as diet or the ever-increasing stress of everyday life, leading to a highly increased incidence of mental illness;
- an over-medicalisation of human thought processes, and an increasing tendency on the part of mental health experts to label individual 'quirks and foibles' as illness; or
- improved diagnostic and clinical ability on the part of the professionals.
Controversy over the nature of mental illness
The subject is profoundly controversial, e.g. homosexuality has been considered such an "illness" from time to time, and obviously this perception varies with cultural bias and theory of conduct.
It is important to note that the existence of mental illness and the legitimacy of the psychiatric profession are not universally accepted. Some professionals, notably Doctor Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Syracuse, are profoundly opposed to the practice of labelling "mental illness" as such. "There is no such thing as mental illness" is not an uncommon statement at gatherings of therapists emphasizing patient care and self-control, often decrying labels as suitable only for pill salesmen. This movement, known as anti-psychiatry argues against a biological origin for mental disorders, or else suggests that all human experience has a biological origin and so no pattern of behavior can be classified as an illness per se.
Neurochemical studies have proven that there are systemic lacks of certain neurotransmitters in the brains of certain individuals. Also, some structural differences between brains of people with behavioral differences can be detected in brain scans. Some mental illnesses tend to run in families, and there have also been strongly suggestive, but not conclusive, links between certain genes and particular mental disorders. Routine tests for these conditions are, however, not generally required for prescription of drugs, and are not always employed in law either. It is not clear whether these differences in brain chemistry are the cause or the result of mental disorders. Anti-psychiatrists argue that traumatic life experiences that exceed an individual's coping ability can result in lasting changes in brain chemistry. Patterns of learned behavior can also alter brain chemistry, for better or for worse. Cognitive behavior therapy focuses on changing patterns of thinking through learning, which may ultimately restore so-termed "healthy" brain chemistry.
Drug therapies for severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and clinical depression which are consistent with biochemical models have been remarkably effective, and there are reports of increasively effective treatments for schizophrenia. Anti-psychiatrists, however, argue that drugs merely mask the symptoms of mental suffering by physically crippling the brain's emotional response system. Studies have shown that many patient's symptoms return once drug treatment is ceased.
See the articles on anti-psychiatry and causes of mental illness for a fuller treatment of these topics.
Categorization of mental illness
Many mental illnesses have been categorised into groups according to their common symptoms, in a diagnostic manual called the DSM-IV. There are thirteen different categories. Some categories contain a myriad of illnesses and some with only a few:
- disorders usually recognised in infancy, childhood or adolescence; e,g., mental retardation, autism, ADHD
- Delerium, dementia, amnesiastic and other cognitive disorders; e.g., Alzheimers disease
- mental disorders due to a general medical condition; e.g., AIDS-related psychosis
- substance-related disorders; e.g., addiction
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Mood disorders; e.g., depression, bipolar disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Somatoform disorders; e.g., hypochondria
- Factitious disorders; e.g., Munchausen's syndrome
- Dissociative disorders; e.g., dissociative identity disorder
- Sexual disorders; e.g., gender identity disorder
- Eating disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Impulse-control disorders eg.kleptomania, pyromania
- Adjustment disorders
- Personality disorders
Symptoms of mental illness
In addition to the categorized illnesses, there are many well-defined symptoms of mental illness such as paranoia that are not regarded as illnesses in themselves, but only as indicators of one of the illnesses belonging to one of the classes listed above.
See also:
- Automatism
- Alphabetic list of mental illnesses
- Reality
- Sectioning
- Causes of mental illness
External links
- NAMI Fact and Figures about Mental Illness
- The History of Mental Illness (Ohio University, The Ridges)
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Synonyms: MadnessSynonyms: fury (n), hydrophobia (n), insaneness (n), lunacy (n), lyssa (n), rabies (n), rage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. |
Excitability | Violence; fierceness; Adjective: rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger. |
Insanity | Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm. |
Knowledge | Erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge; education; (teaching); culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge; (skill); liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments; (beginning). |
Resentment | Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears. |
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Crosswords: Madness |
| English words defined with "madness": brainsick ♦ crazy, Cynanthropy ♦ Dementation, demented, Demonomania, distracted, disturbed ♦ Lune, Lymphated ♦ Mad, Madding, Mania a potu ♦ Planetary aberration, Pteridomania ♦ sick ♦ unbalanced, unhinged ♦ Woodness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "madness": Alifanfaron ♦ bootlegbooks ♦ Great Wits to Madness nearly are Allied ♦ Honey Madness ♦ Jewels ♦ MAD TOM, Midsummer Madness ♦ Ophelia ♦ Palamedes of Lombardy ♦ rum ♦ sophistry, suicidal drive ♦ thanatomania, TOM OF BEDLAM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "madness": nymphomania. (references) |
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Screenplays | Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me you have a wife and two adorable childrenand this madness between us can't go on any longer (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Capatin Blaze, you know this is madness! (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) Alright. Let's review our options: Quicksilver madness - dead (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Am I right (Performance; writing credit: Donald Cammell) That way lies madness and sweaty palms (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | 'Cause you might enjoy some madness for awhile (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel) I'll love you with all the madness in my soul ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The madness of a roller coaster (The Space Between; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) Groove, let the madness in the music get to you (Off the Wall; performing artist: Michael Jackson) There's some kind of madness in your eyes (Keep Coming Back; performing artist: Richard Marx) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carnal Madness (1974) Tales That Witness Madness (1973) Madness (1971) Skin Flick Madness (1971) A Fine Madness (1966) | |
Song Titles | Captain's Log/Space Madness (performing artist: Ren & Stimpy) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Resist nuclear madness! / Rocky Flats Truth Force ; photo: Robert Godfrey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Computer madness" by Ossian Engmark Commentary: "Night scene image of my screen..." | "Club Madness 5" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Pool shark." |
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E. M. Cioran | We derive our vitality from our store of madness. |
Lord Byron | Hatred is the madness of the heart. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Drunkeness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. |
Robert Burton | A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich. |
Seneca | Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. |
Thomas Browne | The religion of one seems madness unto another. |
Thomas Fuller | It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. |
Virgil | Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you? |
William Shakespeare | Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It would be criminal madness to cast it adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He is tortured to his death by its immeasurable madness. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was that windless hour of dawn when madness wakes and strange plants open to the light and the moth flies forth silently |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And Winfield was reduced to madness. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words. His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. Polydore Smith |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | To secure the fitness and competency of appointees to office and remove from political action the demoralizing madness for spoils, civil-service reform has found a place in our public policy and laws. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in this world. |
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| "Madness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "Madness" is used about 703 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.15% | 690 | 9,626 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.42% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 703 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "madness": canine madness ♦ cow madness ♦ lash into madness ♦ midsummer day madness ♦ moon madness ♦ real madness ♦ spirit of madness. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "madness": miracle-madness, motor-madness, youth-sex-madness. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "madness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | besetenheid (craziness, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
Albanian | marrëzi (amentia, fatuity, fatuousness, Folly, foolishness, ineptitude, insanity, lunacy, nonsense, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery), tërbim (exasperation, experience, furor, fury, hydrophobia, ire, lyssa, rabies, rage, ragging, rampage, rampancy, rave, wrath), çmenduri (craze, dementia, distraction, lunacy). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلب (canine, dog, hound, pooch, tike), حماقة قصوي, تهور (extravagance, foolhardiness, haste, impetuosity, imprudence, impulsiveness, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, recklessness, temerity, uncontrollability), سعر جنون (frenzy), خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), جنون (craze, craziness, dementia, foolishness, insanity, lunacy), السعر (amok, price), إبتهاج غامر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярост (Bate, desperation, frenzy, fury, ire, paddywhack, passion, rabidity, rage, rave, tear, violence, wax), умопомрачение (derangement, insanity), лудост (craze, craziness, distraction, fury, insanity, lunacy, rage), бяс (fury, hydrophobia, ire, rabidity, rabies, rage, rave), полуда (craze, delirium, frenzy), побърканост (craze, craziness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 瘋狂 , 瘈 (furious, hydrophobia), 疯狂 (AMOK, Amuck, Craziness, Crazy, demented, frenzied, Frenzies, frenzy, insane, insanity, mad, maniacal). (various references) | |
Czech | šílenství (frenzy, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
Danish | bovin spongiform encephalopati (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, cow madness, mad cow disease). (various references) | |
Dutch | zinsverbijstering (lunacy), zinsverbýstering (craziness, insanity, lunacy), zinneloosheid (craziness, insanity, lunacy), waanzin (craziness, insanity, lunacy), uitzinnigheid (craziness, insanity, lunacy), krankzinnigheid (craziness, insanity, lunacy), gekte (craziness, insanity, lunacy), gekheid (craziness, insanity, lunacy, nonsense). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frenezo (craziness, insanity, lunacy), frenezeco (craziness, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
Finnish | hulluus (folly, foolishness, insanity). (various references) | |
French | aliénation. (various references) | |
Frisian | waansin (craziness, insanity, lunacy), dwylsinnigens (craziness, insanity, lunacy), dwylsin (craziness, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
German | Wahnsinn (craziness, deliriousness, frenzy, insanity, lunacy, mania), tollheit (mad act, rabidity). (various references) | |
Greek | μούρλια (lunacy), παραφροσύνη (dementi, derangement, frenzy, insaneness, insanity, lunacy), φρενοβλάβεια (insanity, mental illness), τρέλλα (amok, mania, nuttiness, rompishness), τρέλα (aberration, craze, craziness, cult, fad, mania). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שגעון (absurdity, craziness, insanity, kink, lunacy, mania, quirk, whim), שטות (absurdity, fiddle-faddle, foolishness, insanity, nonsense, piffle, tomfoolery), השתוללות (frenzy, lack of restraint, rampage), השתגעות (driving mad, maddening), השתטות (craziness, foolishness), טרוף הדעת (craziness, delusion, insanity, lunacy), טרוף (amok, craziness, dementia, frenzy, maggot, mixed, scrambled, torn apart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elmebaj (deliria, delirium, dementia, insanity, lunacy, mental alienation, psychosis), õrültség (craziness, lunacy), ôrület (craziness, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kegilaan (folly, insanity, lunacy, mania, psychosis, stupidity). (various references) | |
Italian | pazzia (craze, freakiness, insanity, lunacy, screwiness), follia (craziness, Folly, foolery, insanity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 発狂 (craziness, insanity), 狂気 , 狂乱 (frenzy, fury), 気違い沙汰 , 気違い (mad). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうらん (display, frenzy, fury, raging waves, show), きょうき (chivalrous spirit, cooccurrence, dangerous weapon, ecstasy, narrow gauge, pleasant surprise, retentive memory, wild joy), きちがいざた, きちがい (mad), はっきょう (craziness, insanity). (various references) | |
Korean | 광증. (various references) | |
Manx | rouyl (frenzy), meecheeayllid (absurdity, absurdness, idiocy, imbecility, silliness, simpleness), keoieys (mania, wildness, wildness of persons), keoieid (craziness, frenzy, furiousness, insanity, mania, rage, savageness, viciousness, wildness, wildness of persons), keogh (frenzy), jiarg-eulys (terrible rage), eulys (ferocity, fury, indignation, rage), builley (bash, beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, hit, impact, knock, pulsate, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, sweep, thump, toot, toot on horn, whack), baanrys (dementia, derangement, fanaticism), baanrid (craziness, frenzy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | galskap (lunacy). (various references) | |
Papiamen | lokura (craziness, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adnessmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | loucura (brain sickness, crack, derangement, distraction, folly, foolishness, freak-out, frenzy, insanity, lunacy, mania). (various references) | |
Romanian | turbare (frenzy, rabies, rage), tâmpenie (idiocy, imbecility, stupidity), smintealã (damage, defect, Folly, harm, hindrance, lunacy, mistake, shortcoming), prostie (bosh, fatuity, Folly, foolery, foolishness, fudge, idiocy, ineptitude, lumpishness, mischief, oafishness, obtuseness, obtusity, piffle, senseless remark, silly thing, simplicity, stupidity, tomfoolery), nebunie curatã, nebunie (craze, craziness, dementia, distraction, Folly, foolery, foolishness, frenzy, hobby, insanity, lunacy, mania, mischief, phrensy, raving), furie (anger, fierceness, frenzy, fury, hastiness, ire, mood, rage, shrew, temper, termagant, violence, wax, wrath), frenezie (frenzy, phrensy), demenţã (craziness, dementia, distraction, insanity, madwoman), delir (delirium, ecstasy, enthusiasm, mania, raving). (various references) | |
Russian | сумасшествие (craziness, dementia, derangement, distraction, insaneity, insanity), безумство (craziness, insanity, lunacy). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuthach (insanity : air chuthach, rage), boil, boile, boil (fury, passion, rage), baois, bàinidh (great excitement, rage). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ludilo (insanity, lunacy), ludački postupak, bešnjenje (rampage). (various references) | |
Spanish | locura (alienation, amok, amuck, craziness, Folly, insanity, lunacy, piece of folly, wildness), demencia (craziness, dementia, insanity). (various references) | |
Swedish | vansinne (craziness, delirium, frenzy, insanity, lunacy, mad), galenskap (act of folly, craziness, distraction, Folly, insanity, lunacy), dårskap (daftness, folly, foolery, fooly). (various references) | |
Turkish | delilik (bug, craziness, crotchet, derangement, distraction, extravagance, Folly, foolery, insanity, lunacy, mania, mental derangement, vagary, wildness), cinnet (insanity, lunacy, mania, possession, rabidness), çılgınlık (craze, craziness, delirium, distraction, escapade, fad, foolhardiness, frenzy, fury, lunacy, nuts, rabidness, rave, raving, ravings, vagary, wildness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сказ (hydrophobia, rabidity, rabies), божевілля (alienation, dementia, frenzy, insanity, lunacy, phrensy), безумство (desperation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự mất trí sự giận dữ, chứng rồ dại, chứng điên (mania). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwallgofrwydd (insanity), gorffwylltra (insanity), cynddaredd (rabies), amwyll (foolish, mad, madman), amhwyllter. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mania, paranoia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amentia, amentiam, delirium, dementia, dementiae, furia, furiae, furor, furore, furorem, furori, furoris, furorisque, insania, insaniae, insaniam, insanias, rabies, vesaniae. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | mania. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Autoi de eplhsqhsan anoiaV kai dielaloun proV allhlouV ti an poihseian tw ihsou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ipsi autem repleti sunt insipientia et conloquebantur ad invicem quidnam facerent Iesu |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa wurdon hig mid unwisdome gefyllede and spæcon betux him hwæt hig þam hælende dydon; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei weren fulfillid with vnwisdom, and spaken togidir, what thei schulden do of Jhesu. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they were filled full of madnes and comuned one with another what they myght do to Iesu. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | Apan sila napuno sa kapungot ug ilang gipanagsabutan kon unsay ilang pagabuhaton kang Jesus. |
| Croatian | A oni se, izbezumljeni, poènu dogovarati što da poduzmu protiv Isusa. |
| Danish | Men de bleve fulde af Raseri og talte med hverandre om, hvad de skulde gøre ved Jesus. |
| Dutch | En zij werden vervuld met uitzinnigheid, en spraken samen met elkander, wat zij Jezus doen zouden. |
| Finnish | Mutta he vimmastuivat kovin ja puhelivat keskenään, mitä heidän olisi tehtävä Jeesukselle. |
| French | Ils furent remplis de fureur, et ils se consultèrent pour savoir ce qu`ils feraient à Jésus. |
| German | Sie aber wurden ganz unsinnig und beredeten sich miteinander, was sie ihm tun wollten. |
| Hungarian | Azok pedig eltelének esztelenséggel és beszélgetnek vala egymás közt, hogy mit cselekedjenek Jézussal? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi guru-guru agama dan orang-orang Farisi itu marah sekali, dan mulai berunding mengenai apa yang dapat mereka lakukan terhadap Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka mereka itu sekalian pun sangatlah geram, serta berunding sama sendirinya, apa yang patut mereka itu perbuat ke atas Yesus. |
| Manx Gaelic | As v'adsyn myr deiney baanrit; as hug ad nyn goyrle dy cheilley, cre dy yannoo rish Yeesey. |
| Maori | Na ki tonu ratou i te honohonoa; ka korerorero ki a ratou ano, me aha ranei a Ihu e ratou. |
| Norwegian | Men de blev rent rasende, og talte med hverandre om hvad de skulde gjøre med Jesus. |
| Portuguese | Mas eles se encheram de furor; e uns com os outros conferenciam sobre o que fariam a Jesus. |
| Rumanian | Ei turbau de mknie, wi s`au sfqtuit ce ar putea sq facq lui Isus. |
| Shuar | Tura Chíkichkia ti kajerkarmiayi. Túrawar "Jesus Warí itiurkamniakit" tusar aniniaisarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces ellos se llenaron de enojo y discutían los unos con los otros qué podrían hacer con Jesús. |
| Swahili | Lakini wao wakakasirika sana, wakajadiliana jinsi ya kumtendea Yesu maovu. |
| Swedish | Men de blevo såsom ursinniga och talade med varandra om vad de skulle kunna företaga sig mot Jesus. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, uma mowo karoe-ra guru agama pai' to Parisi. Toe pai' mohawa' -ramo mpali' reke-ra, ba rapopai-i Yesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "madness": madnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Madness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macnessa, Macnissi, Maddess, maddness, Madnes, madnesses, Magness, mandis, Mandos, Manesse, manless, marnes, mindness, modeness, Muness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "madness" (pronounced ma"dnus) |
| 5 | -a" d n u s | badness, sadness. |
| 4 | -d n u s | awkwardness, backwardness, baldness, blandness, blindness, boldness, coldness, crookedness, farsightedness, fondness, goodness, handedness, hardness, indebtedness, kindness, mindedness, nearsightedness, preparedness, redness, rudeness, sacredness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, soundness, spiritedness, tiredness, vividness, weirdness, wickedness, wildness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, bagginess, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, bleakness, bluntness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, happiness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, ruinous, ruthlessness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wilderness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: desmans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: amends, desman, manses, massed, menads, mensas, messan, sedans. | |
-2 letters: admen, amend, amens, assed, dames, damns, deans, maned, manes, manse, masse, meads, means, menad, mends, mensa, mesas, named, names, nemas, sades, sands, saned, sanes, seams, sedan, sends, sensa, sneds. | |
-3 letters: amen, ands, anes, dame, damn, dams, dean, dens, ends, made, mads, maes, mane, mans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: dampness, medusans, seedsman. | |
+2 letters: damndests, madnesses. | |
+3 letters: admonishes, ampersands, damascenes, damnedests, dampnesses, deaminases, dismalness, dismantles, dreaminess, endoplasms, handsomest, landmasses, mandamuses, markedness, misandries, mishandles, muscadines, nursemaids, randomness, seminomads. | |
+4 letters: adjustments, administers, admonishers, advisements, anastomosed, bandmasters, debasements, disbarments, disseminate, dressmaking, encompassed, gormandises, impassioned, mansuetudes, masterminds, misdiagnose, mundaneness, pseudomonas, readmission, salamanders, submediants, unassembled. | |
+5 letters: adventurisms, damnableness, demonstrates, desipramines, disablements, disarmaments, disbandments, disharmonies, dismalnesses, disseminated, disseminates, disseminator, dreamfulness, dreaminesses, dressmakings, eudaemonisms, eudaemonists, eudaimonisms, gangsterdoms, gladsomeness, gourmandises, grandmasters, groundmasses, handsomeness, inadmissible, maidenliness, maidservants, manifoldness, markednesses, masculinised, merchandises, misdemeanors, misdiagnosed, misdiagnoses, misguidances, moderateness, preadmission, pseudomonads, randomnesses, readmissions, scrimshander, semidarkness, somatomedins, succedaneums, sulfonamides. | |
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