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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Madness \Mad"ness\, noun [From {Mad}, adjective]
1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage.
Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See {Insanity}.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
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}]
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