madness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

   poetry is a sort of divine madness

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.

   Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […]

3. 3
   noun

   the quality of being rash and foolish

4. 4
   noun

   a feeling of intense anger

5. 5
   noun

   an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal)

6. 6
   noun

   obsolete terms for legal insanity

7. 7
   noun

   The state of being angry.

8. 8
   noun

   Rash folly.

Etymology

From Middle English madnes, madnesse; equivalent to mad + -ness.