madness

/mˈædnəs/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. obsolete terms for legal insanity
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
3. a feeling of intense anger
   “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
4. the quality of being rash and foolish
   “trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly”
5. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
   “poetry is a sort of divine madness”

Synonyms for madness

• lunacy
• insaneness
• rabies
• hydrophobia
• lyssa
• fury
• rage
• folly
• foolishness
• craziness
• rabidity
• rabidness

Words that rhyme with madness

• badness
• sadness
• fadness