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insanity

/in-san-i-tee/US // ɪnˈsæn ɪ ti //UK // (ɪnˈsænɪtɪ) //

精神错乱,疯癫,精神错乱症,精神病

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·san·i·ties.

    • : the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind.
    • : Law. such unsoundness of mind as frees one from legal responsibility, as for committing a crime, or as signals one's lack of legal capacity, as for entering into a contractual agreement.
    • : Psychiatry. psychosis.
    • : extreme foolishness: Trying to drive through that traffic would be pure insanity.a foolish or senseless action, policy, statement, etc.: We've heard decades of insanities in our political discourse.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmental illness; foolishness
Synonyms
absurdity荒诞性,荒谬性,荒唐,荒谬的事alienation疏远,异化,疏离,疏离感craziness疯狂,疯癫,狂热,疯狂的dementia失智症,痴呆症,老年痴呆症,失智症患者folly愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的,愚弄frenzy狂热,狂热的,热潮,狂潮hysteria癔症,歇斯底里,癔病,歇斯底里症irresponsibility不负责任的行为,不负责任,不负责任的做法,不负责任的态度lunacy疯子,痴呆症,癫痫,疯癫madness乱象,疯狂,混乱mental disorder精神疾病,精神障碍,精神病,精神病患者aberration畸变,色差,偏差,畸形delirium谵妄,神智不清,谵语,谵妄症delusion错觉,妄想,妄念,幻想derangement错乱,紊乱,错觉,错位distraction分心,分散注意力,分心术,分心的问题dotage笼统的说,笼统,笼统的说法,笼统地讲hallucination幻觉,幻象,幻听,幻想illusion幻象,幻想,幻觉,幻影inanity虚无缥缈,荒唐,荒诞不经,荒诞irrationality不合理性,不合情理,无理取闹,不理性mania躁狂症,躁症,狂躁症,躁动症neurosis神经症,神经衰弱,神经衰弱症,神经病phobia恐惧症,恐怖症,恐惧症患者,恐惧症患者的psychopathy精神病态,精神变态,心理变态,精神病理学psychosis精神病,精神病症,精神病患者,精神病学senselessness无感,无感觉,无知无觉,无知觉unbalance非平衡,非平衡性,非平衡态,非均衡preposterousness荒谬的事情,荒诞不经,荒唐,荒谬unreasonableness不合理性,不合情理,不合理,不合理之处witlessness无助,无奈,无奈之举,无能

Examples

  • ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky called the Bucs “the walking definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

  • The definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result — is an apt description of the post-election punditry.

  • The insanity of 2020 has, among other things, hammered home some basic truths about the art of management, starting with the fact that it was evolving rapidly long before a pandemic upended workplaces around the world.

  • It’s insanity, but Whirlpool just sold more bathtubs in a recession than in an expansion.

  • I just wanted to get out and be one of the first ones to cast my vote to hopefully end the insanity we are living in under the current administration.

  • AIDS insanity:  When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.

  • Insanity, after all, is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, right?

  • But as Nietzsche once wrote, “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”

  • Only one first world country would allow such insanity to continue.

  • On appeal in 2006, she was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity and remanded to a psychiatric hospital.

  • I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

  • James Otis recovered from a temporary fit of insanity only to grow strangely suspicious of Samuel Adams.

  • No family history of epilepsy, insanity, nervous or other hereditary disorders in 59 per cent.

  • Thus, to import insanity or incompetency to a professional man, or that a public official is dishonest and corrupt is actionable.

  • It seems not unlikely that the underlying cause of so-called idiopathic insanity is usually some change within the brain cells.