(Pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
Any of various disorders characterized by impairment of an individual's thoughts, emotions, or social functioning, including schizophrenia and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder.
Any of the various diseases affecting the mind onset by brain damage or genetics described in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems sections 290 through 319.
A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous.
(Psychiatry) An abnormal psychological state characterized by symptoms such as elation, high energy and activity level, racing thoughts, irritability, and rapid speech, typically occurring in people with bipolar disorder.
A personality disorder characterized by deceitfulness, manipulation, grandiosity, lack of empathy or guilt, and often aggressive or violent behavior. It is sometimes considered a subset of antisocial personality disorder.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
A group of psychiatric symptoms, including heightened emotionality, attention-seeking behavior, and preoccupation with physical symptoms that may not be explainable by a medical condition. The term hysteria is no longer in clinical use, and such symptoms are currently attributed to any of several psychiatric conditions, including somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder, and histrionic personality disorder.
The condition of having a sound and rational mind; being mentally healthy and having the ability to distinguish right from wrong. In all jurisdictions, being sane is presumed, and it is up to the defense to prove the contrary to be true. Synonymous with sanity. See also insanity and insanity defense.
(Countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17 th century.]
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Psychosis
is the psychiatric term for any of various specialized mental disorders, functional or organic, in which the personality is seriously disorganized
Dementia
is the general term for an acquired mental disorder, now generally one of organic origin, as distinguished from amentia (congenital mental deficiency)
Lunacy
specifically suggests periodic spells of insanity, but is now most commonly used in its extended sense of extreme folly
Insanity
, current in popular and legal language but not used technically in medicine, implies mental derangement in one who formerly had mental health
Find another word for insanity. In this page you can discover 61 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for insanity, like: amentia, lunacy, psychosis, sanity, dementia, mental illness, mental-disorder, derangement, alienation, neurosis and psychoneurosis.
The insanity of what she did was beyond his comprehension.
There are six more months of insanity to record in 1787.
A year later, the kings insanity being proved incurable, the regency was definitively established (February 1812).
Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.
This woman could bring me to the brink of insanity.