Definitions for insanity

insanity in·san·i·ty

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

Insanity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in insanity (aiinnsty).

Definitions for insanity

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 insanity

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

Examples for insanity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for insanity
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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