[ US /ˈmædnəs/ ]
[ UK /mˈædnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  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. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
    poetry is a sort of divine madness
  4. a feeling of intense anger
    hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
    his face turned red with rage
  5. obsolete terms for legal insanity
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How To Use madness In A Sentence

  • The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
  • But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates.
  • Probably because he has been driven into deicidal madness after Ares tricks Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter. The Cultural Gutter
  • The lack of laughter in the auditorium is offset only by our blind hope that there is method in this madness and that an explanation is around the corner.
  • That craziest part about it was that for a moment after she'd said it, he had actually contemplated madness and mayhem.
  • He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd.
  • The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said French aircraft were already in action by late afternoon to stop what he described as Gaddafi's "murderous madness". Libya: Allied strikes sweep Libya as west intervenes in conflict
  • It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. 
  • But we are faced with the madness of a system that pits one worker against another.
  • Nearchus, however, went along the deck encouraging the men to remain firm and—in a move that must have struck the frightened sailors as sheer madness—ordered the helmsmen to turn their bows toward the whales in attack formation. Alexander the Great
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