sanity
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Synonyms & Antonyms for sanity
Synonyms
daylights, head, marbles, mind, reason, saneness, wit(s)
Antonyms
dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, unreason
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No Yankee, though, did more damage to Baltimore (and to Gary Thorne’s sanity) than Gleyber Torres. — Jon Tayler, SI.com, "14 Mind-Boggling Stats Behind the Yankees' Season-Long Destruction of the Orioles," 15 Aug. 2019 Emma Grey Ellis reports on a new paper analyzing misogynistic subreddits: The most salient findings will be a sanity check for many women who spend time online. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "The White House social media summit was full of hypocrisy — and comedy," 12 July 2019 The most salient findings will be a sanity check for many women who spend time online. — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, "Reddit’s ‘Manosphere’ and the Challenge of Quantifying Hate," 10 July 2019 Clark seems more willing to explore creative avenues to return sanity to the longball. — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, "MLB commissioner Rob Manfred insists league isn't juicing the balls – so where do we go from here?," 9 July 2019 Please, scale back the nonsense for the sake of everyone’s sanity. — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, "World Cup’s VAR replay system tarnishes a great event," 25 June 2019 Video: Fishers student wearing a Go Pro camera shows first day of school at his level Provided by Hamilton Southeastern Schools The time has come to buy school supplies, new clothes for the kids and regain a small bit of your sanity. — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, "Here's when students go back to school around Indianapolis," 22 July 2019 That meant incurring even more student debt and losing more of my sanity (and hair) to graduate and take the bar…again. — Maria Kari, Glamour, "Stop Telling Kim Kardashian, Possible Future Lawyer, to 'Stay In Her Lane'," 21 Apr. 2019 Soon, the mess was gone, the threat to my child was erased, and my sanity felt not only intact, but oddly refreshed. — Lorraine Allen, Good Housekeeping, "My Child Has a Severe Allergy, But I Secretly Ate Her Forbidden Food Anyway," 20 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sanity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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