madness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: madness	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for madness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
madness n obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness] 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 Synonym(s): rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" Synonym(s): fury, rage, madness 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" Synonym(s): folly, foolishness, craziness, madness unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness" Synonym(s): madness, rabidity, rabidness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Madness \Mad"ness\, n. [From {Mad}, a.] 1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy. 2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly. Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See {Insanity}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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."