Lunacy Synonyms and Antonyms

lo͝onə-sē
Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. brainsickness
  2. craziness
  3. dementia
  4. derangement
  5. disturbance
  6. insaneness
  7. insanity
  8. madness
  9. mental illness
  10. psychopathy
  11. unbalance
  12. mania
  13. aberration
  14. alienation

Words Related to Lunacy

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Lunacy Sentence Examples

  • The committee of a lunatic, with the sanction of the judge in lunacy, may refer disputes to arbitration.

  • The lunacy of her father and the depravity of her mother were serious drawbacks to Catherine, and her only education was obtained in a convent at Poissy.

  • As you can imagine it turned into a night of absolute lunacy.

  • The black abolitionists had respect for Brown but thought the plan lunacy.

  • The councils of all administrative counties and county boroughs and the councils of a few specified quarter sessions boroughs, which before 1890 were independent areas for purposes of the Lunacy Acts, are local authorities for the purposes of the Lunacy Acts, and each of them is under an obligation to provide asylum accommodation for pauper lunatics.

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