Definition of insanity

"insanity" in the noun sense

1. insanity

relatively permanent disorder of the mind

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Quotations for insanity

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. [ Dryden ]

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. [ Churchill ]

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]

Those whom God to ruin has designed.
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. [ Dryden ]

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. [ Aristotle ]

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity. [ Carlyle ]

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. [ Emerson ]

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [ Horace ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. [ Burke ]

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the doorsill of insanity, at least once. [ Taine ]

A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. [ John Foster ]

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. [ Carlyle ]

insanity in Scrabble®

The word insanity is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters insanity:

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insanity in Words With Friends™

The word insanity is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

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