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Meaning of madness

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  madness
      n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: {lunacy},
           {madness}, {insaneness}]
      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 [syn:
         {rabies}, {hydrophobia}, {lyssa}, {madness}]
      3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
         scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: {fury},
         {rage}, {madness}]
      4: 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" [syn: {folly},
         {foolishness}, {craziness}, {madness}]
      5: unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of
         divine madness" [syn: {madness}, {rabidity}, {rabidness}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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