Associations to the word «Madness»

Wiktionary

MADNESS, noun. The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
MADNESS, noun. Rash folly

Dictionary definition

MADNESS, noun. Obsolete terms for legal insanity.
MADNESS, noun. 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.
MADNESS, noun. A feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage".
MADNESS, noun. 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".
MADNESS, noun. Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats