Synonyms and Antonyms of madness
1
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
- nowadays certain forms of madness are quite treatable
neurosis, psychosis
instability, irrationality, unreasonableness
delirium, frenzy, hysteria
hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia
senile dementia
delusion, hallucination
monomania, obsession, phobia
abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness
2
lack of good sense or judgment
- to do something so reckless would be sheer madness
absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, unwisdom, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness
denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, gormlessness [chiefly British], idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity
fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness
kookiness, weirdness
laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness
3
an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something
- her incessant insults goaded him to such madness that he would storm around breaking dishes and slamming doors
anger, angriness, birse [chiefly Scottish], choler, furor, fury, indignation, irateness, ire, lividity, lividness, mad, mood [archaic], outrage, rage, spleen, wrath, wrathfulness
aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation
acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, biliousness, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, empoisonment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor
envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment
malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence,
