lunacy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From lun(atic) + -acy.
Meanings
- (countable, of a person or group of people, uncountable) The state of being mad, insanity ▸ A cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.
- (countable, of a person or group of people, uncountable) The state of being mad, insanity ▸ Insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
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(countable, uncountable) Something deeply misguided.
Two days have passed since that day of lunacy. What a noise and a fuss and a chattering and an uproar there was! And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners! And I the cause of it all! Yet part of the scene was also ridiculous—at all events to myself it was so.
1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lunacies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
commission of lunacy · balloonacy
Synonyms
madness (state of being mad) · craze (state of being mad) · insanity (state of being mad) · craziness (state of being mad)
Translations (36)
cmn 神經病 /神经病 (state of being mad) · tr cinnet (state of being mad) · nl krankzinnigheid (state of being mad) · ota جنت (state of being mad) · ru невменя́емость (state of being mad) · pl niepoczytalność (state of being mad) · de Wahnsinn (state of being mad) · ga gealtachas (state of being mad) · it pazzia (state of being mad) · nl maanziekte (cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases) · ru помеша́тельство (state of being mad) · nl waanzin (something deeply misguided) · tr çılgınlık (state of being mad) · ang mōnaþsēocnes (state of being mad) · da galskab (state of being mad) · cmn 精神病 (state of being mad) · fr folie (state of being mad) · de Verrücktheit (state of being mad) · es lunatismo (state of being mad) · bg лудост (state of being mad) · no galskap (state of being mad) · tr delilik (state of being mad) · ru безу́мие (state of being mad) · nl waanzin (state of being mad) · ota مجنونلق (state of being mad) · mr वेड (state of being mad) · ru сумасше́ствие (state of being mad) · fi hulluus (state of being mad) · gv ard-ommidjys (state of being mad) · pl obłęd (state of being mad) · pdt Wonsenn (state of being mad) · nl gekheid (state of being mad) · fi hulluus (something deeply misguided) · nl gekheid (something deeply misguided) · es locura (state of being mad) · ru умопомеша́тельство (state of being mad)