madness

English

Etymology

From Middle English madnes, madnesse; equivalent to mad +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæd.nəs/, /ˈmæd.nɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmad.nəs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛd.nɘs/

Noun

madness (countable and uncountable, plural madnesses)

1. The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
2. rash folly

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insanity

Antonyms

• sanity

Translations

insanity

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: جنون m (gunūn)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂 (zh) (kuáng), 瘋病／疯病 (zh) (fēngbìng), 疯病 (zh) (fēngbìng), 精神錯亂／精神错乱 (zh) (jīngshén cuòluàn), 精神错乱 (zh) (jīngshéncuòluàn)

• Czech: šílenství n
• Danish: galskab c, sindssyge c, vanvid n
• Esperanto: frenezeco
• Finnish: hulluus (fi)
• French: folie (fr) f
• Galician: loucura (gl) f, tolería (gl) f, tolemia (gl) f, doudice f, folía f, vesania f
• German: Wahnsinn (de) m, Verrücktheit (de) f
• Greek: παραφροσύνη (el) f (parafrosýni), τρέλα (el) f (tréla)

  Ancient: μανία f (manía)

• Hebrew: שִׁגָּעוֹן (he) m (shiga'ón), טֵרוּף (he) m (terúf)
• Indonesian: kegilaan (id)
• Italian: pazzia (it) f, follia (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 狂気 (ja) (きょうき, kyōki)
• Latin: vēsānia f, insānia f, insānitās f, vēcordia f, dēmentia f, amentia
• Latvian: ārprāts m, vājprāts m, trakums m
• Malayalam: ഭ്രാന്ത് (ml) (bhrāntŭ), വട്ട് (ml) (vaṭṭŭ), കിറുക്ക് (ml) (kiṟukkŭ)
• Manx: meecheeallid m
• Middle English: madnes
• Old English: wōdnes f
• Polish: szaleństwo (pl) n, obłęd (pl) m, świr (pl) m (colloquial), fioł (pl) m (colloquial), szajba (pl) f (expressive), niepoczytalność (pl) f, kręciek m (old), wariactwo (pl) n, amok (pl) m
• Portuguese: loucura (pt) f, insanidade f, maluquice (pt) f, malucagem f, vesânia (pt) f, doidice (pt) f, doideira (pt) f
• Russian: безу́мие (ru) n (bezúmije), сумасше́ствие (ru) n (sumasšéstvije), помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: ludost (sh) f, ludilo (sh) n, poremećenost (sh) f
• Spanish: locura (es) f
• Swedish: vansinne (sv)
• Telugu: పిచ్చి (te) (picci)

rash folly

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蠢事 (zh) (chǔnshì)

• Danish: galskab c, vanvid n
• Finnish: hulluus (fi)
• Galician: tolemia (gl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kabuverdianu: asnera
• Middle English: madnes
• Portuguese: loucura (pt) f
• Russian: помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo)
• Swedish: vansinne (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} folie (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Tollheit (de) f
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} foleso (io)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} follia (it), ^{(please verify)} pazzia (it), ^{(please verify)} insanità
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} galskap
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} macchìghine, ^{(please verify)} macchìne
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} лудило

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} ludilo (sh)

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} sinnesgalenskap

Anagrams

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