Word Meanings - CRAZINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. 2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRAZINESS)

• Lunacy
• Madness
• Insanity
• derangement
• craziness
• mania
• aberration
• hallucination

Related words: (words related to CRAZINESS)

• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ABERRATION
  A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit,
• MANIABLE
  Manageable. Bacon.
• CRAZINESS
  1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. 2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
• INSANITY
  Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Syn. - Insanity, Lunacy,
• ABERRATIONAL
  Characterized by aberration.
• MANIACAL
  Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.
• MANIA
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: , madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity;
• MADNESS
  1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy. 2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly. Syn. -- Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See Insanity.
• LUNACY
  1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation.
• HALLUCINATION
  The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement
• MEGALOMANIA
  A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• ICONOMANIA
  A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
• DECALCOMANIA; DECALCOMANIE
  The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• KLEPTOMANIA
  A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.
• TASMANIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically , in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. See the Note under Eucalyptus.
• DOMANIAL
  Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
• DIPSOMANIAC
  One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
• ANTHOMANIA
  A extravagant fondness for flowers.
• DIPSOMANIACAL
  Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
• MONOMANIA
  Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement. Syn. -- Insanity; madness; alienation; aberration; derangement; mania. See
• BIBLIOMANIAC
  One who has a mania for books. -- a.
• TYPHOMANIA
  A low delirium common in typhus fever.
• METROMANIA
  A mania for writing verses.
• MONOMANIAC
  A person affected by monomania.