#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,


