madness

Noun

• unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
  • poetry is a sort of divine madness
    

• the quality of being rash and foolish
  • trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly
    
  • adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness
    

• a feeling of intense anger
  • hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
    
  • his face turned red with rage
    

• an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

• obsolete terms for legal insanity

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  rabidity , rabidness , folly , foolishness , craziness , fury , rage , rabies , hydrophobia , lyssa , lunacy , insaneness