Dictionary Check: madness
"madness" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
noun
obsolete terms for legal insanity
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
noun
a feeling of intense anger
Example:
"hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
noun
the quality of being rash and foolish
Example:
"trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"
noun
unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
Example:
"poetry is a sort of divine madness"
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