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madness
noun(mad-ness)
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
Synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies,
madness
noun(mad-ness)
unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
Synonyms: rabidity, rabidness,
Examples:
Poetry is a sort of divine madness.
madness
noun(mad-ness)
obsolete terms for legal insanity
Synonyms: insaneness, lunacy,
madness
noun(mad-ness)
a feeling of intense anger
Synonyms: fury, rage,
madness
noun(mad-ness)
the quality of being rash and foolish
Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolishness,

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