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premadness en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + madness.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before the onset of madness.
    • Since Heracles is no longer sick, there is no reason he cannot be famous once again. Theseus is trying to restore Heracles to his heroic, premadness state, […] 2020, Craig Jendza, Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy, page 80:
    • For a detailed description of the city's premadness social and political structure, see Mackay/Gresbeck, 22–25. 2021, William L. Bernstein, The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups: