Thesaurus:insanity

Thesaurus

insanity

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Noun

Sense: state of being insane; an unhealthy mental state

Synonyms

• bedlamism
• brainsickness
• craze
• craziness
• derangement
• insaneness
• insanity
• lunacy
• lune (obsolete)
• madness
• mental disorder
• mental illness
• unreason
• unsanity (rare)

Antonyms

• mental health
• saneness
• sanity    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• bipolar disorder
• depression
• hysteria
• mania
• manic depression
• neurosis
• psychosis
• schizophrenia
•   —
• dementia praecox (dated)
• disorganized schizophrenia
• hebephrenia
• macromania
• megalomania
• monomania
• paranoid schizophrenia

Hypernyms

• condition
• deviance
• disorder    [⇒ thesaurus]
• illness

Meronyms

• acataphasia
• akathisia
• amnesia
• aphasia
• catalepsy
• catatonia
• codependency
• delirium
• delusion
• dysphasia
• dysphoria
• echolalia
• formication
• fugue state
• glossolalia
• hallucination
• heterolalia
• hypermnesia
• idée fixe
• monophasia
• neolalia
• obsession
• palilalia
• paresthesia
• paramnesia
• paranoia
• paranomia
• paraphasia
• paresis
• phrenesis
• schizophasia
• total recall
• word salad

Coordinate terms

• unsanity

Various

• addiction
• anxiety
• behavioral crisis
• complex    [⇒ thesaurus]
• delusion of grandeur
• dementia
• ecstasy
• fixation
• frenzy
• hypochondria
• hypochondriasis
• kleptomania
• lypemania (archaic)
• general paresis of the insane
• maladjustment
• malaise
• neurasthenia (dated)
• nosomania
• nympholepsy
• phobia
• phrenitis
• psychasthenia (dated)
• psychopathology
• pyromania
• repression
• senility

See also

• Thesaurus:insane
• Thesaurus:mad person
• Category:en:Clinical psychology

Further reading

• “503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “insanity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.