What are some opposite words for madness?

Antonyms for madness
ˈmæd nɪsmad·ness

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  1. madnessnoun

    Antonyms:
    sanity

  2. madnessnoun

    Antonyms:
    sanity

  3. madnessnoun

    Antonyms:
    sanity

English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 2 votes

  1. madness

    Of these terms insanity is the most exact and comprehensive, including in its widest sense all morbid conditions of mind due to diseased action of the brain or nervous system, but in its more frequent restricted use applied to those forms in which the mental disorder is persistent, as distinguished from those in which it is temporary or transient. Craziness is a vague popular term for any sort of disordered mental action, or for conduct suggesting it. Lunacy originally denoted intermittent insanity, supposed to be dependent on the changes of the moon (Latin luna): the term is now applied in general and legal use to any form of mental unsoundness except idiocy. Madness is the old popular term, now less common, for insanity in its widest sense, but with suggestion of excitement, akin to mania. In the derived sense, lunacy denotes what is insanely foolish, madness what is insanely desperate. Derangement is a common euphemism for insanity. Delirium is always temporary, and is specifically the insanity of disease, as in acute fevers. Dementia is a general weakening of the mental powers: the word is specifically applied to senile insanity, dotage. Aberration is eccentricity of mental action due to an abnormal state of the perceptive faculties, and is manifested by error in perceptions and rambling thought. Hallucination is the apparent perception of that which does not exist or is not present to the senses, as the seeing of specters or of reptiles in delirium tremens. Monomania is mental derangement as to one subject or object. Frenzy and mania are forms of raving and furious insanity. Compare synonyms for DELUSION; IDIOCY.

    Antonyms:
    clearness, good sense, lucidity, rationality, sanity

    Synonyms:
    aberration, alienation, craziness, delirium, dementia, derangement, frenzy, hallucination, insanity, lunacy, mania, monomania

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. madness

    Antonyms:
    sanity, calmness, soberness

    Synonyms:
    insanity, frenzy, rage, fury

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lunacy, madness, insanenessnoun

    obsolete terms for legal insanity

    Synonyms:
    lyssa, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, foolery, tomfoolery, rabidness, indulgence, insaneness, foolishness, lunacy, folly, craziness, rabies

  2. rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madnessnoun

    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

    Synonyms:
    lyssa, insaneness, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, rabidness, rabies, foolishness, lunacy, folly, craziness

  3. fury, rage, madnessnoun

    a feeling of intense anger

    "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

    Synonyms:
    fad, hydrophobia, foolishness, furiousness, hysteria, craze, vehemence, insaneness, cult, rabidness, ferocity, violence, delirium, passion, fierceness, furore, rabies, fury, frenzy, rage, lyssa, folly, craziness, lunacy, wildness, rabidity, furor

  4. folly, foolishness, craziness, madnessnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    lunacy, foolishness, flakiness, fury, daftness, rabidity, imbecility, stupidity, hydrophobia, rabidness, foolery, tomfoolery, lyssa, folly, craziness, insaneness, indulgence, rage, rabies, unwiseness, betise

  5. madness, rabidity, rabidnessnoun

    unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

    "poetry is a sort of divine madness"

    Synonyms:
    lyssa, fury, rage, rabidity, hydrophobia, rabidness, insaneness, foolishness, lunacy, rabies, craziness, folly

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. madnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy, monomania, frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. madness

    Synonyms:
    See Megaloblastic madness

How to use madness in a sentence?

  1. Mohsin Ali Shaukat:

    Destiny stays stuck in the cage of words and thoughts if it is not pulled by the effective and planed efforts with the touch of a true madness your nature sparks with the every single breath that you take.

  2. Carl DeMaio:

    Instead of acting to address this developing crisis, California state lawmakers are just days away from passing legislation to ban the best rodent-control tools and methods available and would require use of less effective, so-called `green alternatives, its madness.

  3. Marco Rubio:

    It's not my job to tell you who to vote for, but I am going to tell you who I am going to vote for. And I'm gonna tell you why. I'm going to vote for Marco Rubio, our founding fathers did not give us a commander in chief to fill out March madness basketball brackets or to sample golf courses on the eastern seaboard.

  4. Henrik Tikkanen:

    Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

  5. Aristotle:

    No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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