Definitions for insanities

insanities in·san·i·ty

Spelling: [in-san-i-tee]
IPA: /ɪnˈsæn ɪ ti/

Insanities is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 299 anagrams from letters in insanities (aeiiinnsst).

Definitions for insanities

noun

  1. the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
  2. Law. such unsoundness of mind as frees one from legal responsibility, as for committing a crime, or as signals one's lack of legal capacity, as for entering into a contractual agreement.
  3. Psychiatry. (formerly) psychosis.
  4. extreme foolishness; folly; senselessness; foolhardiness: a foolish or senseless action, policy, statement, etc.:

Origin of insanities

From the Latin word insānitās, dating back to 1580-90. See in-3, sanity

Examples for insanities

And because he had too abiding a gentleness to say it, the insanity of her anger rose anew.

insanity, after all, is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, right?

Belinda's blood ran cold—she had no longer any doubt that this was insanity.

No part of my insanity was ever held in such ridicule as this.

But as Nietzsche once wrote, “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”

It is an old trick to say that poets are mad,—you mistake our agonies for insanity.

AIDS insanity:  When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.

But the act she was meditating now was one which seemed like the act of insanity.

On appeal in 2006, she was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity and remanded to a psychiatric hospital.

It demands with monumental courage, a high tolerance for pain, and at least a touch of insanity.

Word Value for insanities
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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