- (old-fashioned, sometimes offensive) the state of having a serious mental illness synonym insanity The use of madness with this meaning can now be offensive.
- There may be a link between madness and creativity.
- They say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness!
- crazy or stupid behaviour that could be dangerous
- It would be sheer madness to trust a man like that.
- In a moment of madness she had agreed to go out with him.
- The real victim in this collective madness is our society.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- pure
- …
- the first sign of madness
- a moment of madness
Idioms
See madness in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythere’s (a) method in somebody’s madness
- there is a reason for somebody’s behaviour and it is not as strange or as stupid as it seems
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