Definitions for madness
Overview of noun madness
The noun madness has 5 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) lunacy, madness, insaneness
(obsolete terms for legal insanity)
2. rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness
(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. fury, rage, madness
(a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage")
4. folly, foolishness, craziness, 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")
5. madness, rabidity, rabidness
(unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness")
