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madness
noun
Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
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ˈmæd.nəs
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noun
Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
“Poetry is a sort of divine madness”
noun
The quality of being rash and foolish
“Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly”
noun
A feeling of intense anger
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
noun
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
noun
Obsolete terms for legal insanity
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Poetry is a sort of divine madness
Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly
Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
His face turned red with rage
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