Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #502.  Sanity. —­ N. sanity; soundness &c. adj.; rationality, sobriety,
lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind, mens sana[Lat]. 
     V. be sane &c. adj.; retain one’s senses, retain one’s reason.
     become sane &c. adj.; come to one’s senses, sober down.
     render sane &c. adj; bring to one’s senses, sober. 
     Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound,
sound-minded; lucid.
     self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.
     in one’s sober senses, in one’s right mind; in possession of one’s
faculties. 
     Adv. sanely &c.adj.

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     #503.  Insanity. —­ N. disordered reason, disordered intellect;
diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder[obs3].
     insanity, lunacy; madness &c. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental
alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation[obs3], dementia, demency[obs3]; phrenitis[obs3], phrensy[obs3], frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain[obs3]; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy[obs3]; brain storm|!.
     vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr],
siriasis[obs3].
     fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania
(caprice) 608; kleptodipsomania[obs3]; hypochondriasis &c. (low spirits) 837[Med]; melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia[obs3].
     screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one’s bonnet, rats in the
upper story.
     dotage &c. (imbecility) 499. 
     V. be insane &c. adj.
     become insane &c. adj; lose one’s senses, lose one’s reason, lose
one’s faculties, lose one’s wits; go mad, run mad, lose one’s marbles [coll.], go crazy, go bonkers [coll.], flip one’s wig [coll.], flip one’s lid[coll.], flip out[coll.], flip one’s bush [coll.].
     rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel &c. (be imbecile) 499; have a screw
loose &c. n., have a devil; avoir le diable au corps[Fr]; lose one’s head &c. (be uncertain) 475.
     render mad, drive mad &c adj.; madden, dementate[obs3], addle the
wits, addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool[obs3]; turn the brain, turn one’s head; drive one nuts [coll.]. 
     Adj. insane, mad, lunatic, loony[coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene[obs3],
non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one’s mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied[obs3], frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated[obs3]; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched [dialect]; off one’s head.
     [behavior suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded,
incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic,

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