MADNESS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MADNESS?

Need another word that means the same as “madness”? Find 49 synonyms and 30 related words for “madness” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Madness” are: hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies, rabidity, rabidness, insaneness, lunacy, fury, rage, craziness, folly, foolishness, insanity, dementia, derangement, dementedness, instability, distraction, depression, mania, hysteria, frenzy, psychosis, psychopathy, schizophrenia, stupidity, midsummer madness, foolhardiness, idiocy, imprudence, irrationality, illogicality, senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, absurdness, absurdity, silliness, inanity, wildness, bedlam, mayhem, chaos, pandemonium, babel, uproar, turmoil, wild disarray, disorder

Madness as a Noun

Definitions of "Madness" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “madness” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Extremely foolish behaviour.
• 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.
• The state of having a serious mental illness.
• The quality of being rash and foolish.
• A feeling of intense anger.
• Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm.
• Obsolete terms for legal insanity.
• A state of wild or chaotic activity.

Synonyms of "Madness" as a noun (49 Words)

absurdity	A message whose content is at variance with reason. Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
absurdness	A message whose content is at variance with reason.
babel	A confused noise made by a number of voices. The potential for confusion in this babel of textual formats is enormous.
bedlam	A scene of uproar and confusion. There was bedlam in the courtroom.
chaos	A dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions. Snow caused chaos in the region.
craziness	A squeaking sound. The craziness of the parties.
dementedness	Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
dementia	A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
depression	A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention. The original shallow depressions were slowly converted to creeks.
derangement	The act of disturbing the mind or body.
disorder	An illness or condition that disrupts normal physical or mental functions. Eating disorders.
distraction	Mental turmoil. There are plenty of distractions such as sailing.
folly	The trait of acting stupidly or rashly. An act of sheer folly.
foolhardiness	The trait of giving little thought to danger.
foolishness	Lack of good sense or judgement; stupidity. She was realizing the foolishness of her actions.
frenzy	State of violent mental agitation. Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage.
fury	Wild or violent anger. Rachel shouted beside herself with fury.
hydrophobia	Extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans.
hysteria	Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement. The anti Semitic hysteria of the 1890s.
idiocy	Extremely stupid behaviour. The idiocy of decimating yew forests.
illogicality	Invalid or incorrect reasoning.
imprudence	A lack of caution in practical affairs.
inanity	Lack of sense or meaning; silliness. He commented on the breathtaking inanity of the board s decision.
insaneness	Obsolete terms for legal insanity.
insanity	Extreme foolishness or irrationality. It might be pure insanity to take this loan.
instability	An unstable order. She showed increasing signs of mental instability.
irrationality	The quality of being illogical or unreasonable. The irrationality of square roots.
lunacy	The state of being a lunatic; insanity (not in technical use. It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy.
lyssa	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.
mania	A mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently. Many people suffering from mania do not think anything is wrong.
mayhem	The crime of maliciously injuring or maiming someone, originally so as to render them defenceless. Complete mayhem broke out.
midsummer madness	June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point.
nonsense	Foolish or unacceptable behaviour. He was talking absolute nonsense.
nonsensicalness	The fact or quality of being nonsensical, nonsensicality.
pandemonium	A state of extreme confusion and disorder. There was complete pandemonium everyone just panicked.
psychopathy	Mental illness or disorder.
psychosis	A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. They were suffering from a psychosis.
rabidity	Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm.
rabidness	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.
rabies	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.
rage	A vehement desire or passion. It was all the rage that season.
schizophrenia	(in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements. Gibraltar s schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride.
senselessness	Total lack of meaning or ideas.
silliness	Lack of common sense or judgement; foolishness. He spouted the same sillinesses I hear all too often.
stupidity	A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience. I can t believe my own stupidity.
turmoil	A state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty. The country was in turmoil.
uproar	A loud and impassioned noise or disturbance. It caused an uproar in the press.
wild disarray	A wild primitive state untouched by civilization.
wildness	The property of being wild or turbulent. The wildness of his anger.

Usage Examples of "Madness" as a noun

• Poetry is a sort of divine madness.
• The new laws are a madness.
• In his madness he destroyed the work of years.
• It is madness to allow children to roam around after dark.
• At midnight it's absolute madness in here.

Associations of "Madness" (30 Words)

amok	Wildly; without self-control.
amuck	Frenzied as if possessed by a demon. Rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones.
berserk	Frenzied as if possessed by a demon. Berserk with grief.
certifiable	Officially recognized as needing treatment for mental disorder. A certifiable fact.
crazy	Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with. A football crazy bunch of boys.
daft	Infatuated with. I was daft about him.
demented	Affected with madness or insanity. She was demented with worry.
deranged	Mad; insane. A deranged gunman.
disturbed	Having had the normal pattern or functioning disrupted. The disturbed books and papers on her desk.
folly	A stupid mistake. An act of sheer folly.
foolery	Foolish or senseless behavior. We endured his foolery all afternoon.
frenzy	A state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour. Doreen worked herself into a frenzy of rage.
harebrained	Very foolish. Harebrained ideas.
imbecility	Retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot.
indulgence	In the Roman Catholic Church a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. Indulgence in self pity.
insane	Extremely annoyed. His eyes were glowing with insane fury.
insanity	Extreme foolishness or irrationality. It might be pure insanity to take this loan.
lunacy	Foolish or senseless behavior. Such an economic policy would be sheer lunacy.
lunatic	A person who is mentally ill (not in technical use). A ward of lunatic old ladies.
madden	Make (someone) extremely annoyed. This is ridiculous she told him maddened by his reaction.
maniac	A person suffering from mania. When he sits in front of a PlayStation he transforms into a karate choppin maniac.
maniacal	Wildly disordered. A maniacal frenzy.
mentally	In a manner relating to the mind. Soldiers become physically and mentally exhausted.
nuts	Mad. The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks in drives me nuts.
psychopath	Someone with a sociopathic personality a person with an antisocial personality disorder psychopath was once widely used but has now been superseded by sociopath. Playground psychopaths will gather around a fight to encourage the combatants.
ramp	Provide with a ramp. They re trying to ramp the share price.
raving	In a raving manner. Have you gone raving mad.
schizophrenia	A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. Gibraltar s schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride.
simpleton	A person lacking intelligence or common sense. Stop grinning at me like a simpleton.
unbalanced	Debits and credits are not equal. This may give an unbalanced impression of the competition.