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Lunacy

Lunacy Meaning & Definition
Lunacy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lunacy?

[n] obsolete terms for legal insanity

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lunacy: insaneness | madness

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | insanity

Lunacy In Webster's Dictionary

\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. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. --Shak. 2. A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. --Dr. H. More. Syn: Derangement; craziness; mania. See {Insanity}.

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