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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sanity
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I began to doubt Donald's sanity as his story got stranger and stranger.
▪ If you have your health and your sanity, money isn't really important.
▪ Let's hope sanity prevails on Capitol Hill and they vote against this bill.
▪ The pressures of his arrest and trial may have caused Garcia to lose his sanity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although he was tempted to try and remain awake, he realised his sanity might be permanently impaired by that.
▪ Meanwhile, first-term Mayor Bill Campbell is struggling to preserve sanity and decorum as Atlanta prepares for the world spotlight.
▪ My urge to prove my sanity made me gabble, and my gabbling disproved my claim.
▪ Simone and André would restore her sense of sanity.
▪ Sometimes I wonder how that child survived; maybe her diary helped keep her sanity.
▪ Stabilisation based on fiscal balance and monetary control is thus the sinequanon of a return to economic sanity.
▪ The strategy brings a degree of sanity to the chaos of investing in hot, albeit volatile stocks.
▪ The trio seemed like an oasis of sanity in a desert of decibels, and their severe music was warmly received.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanity

Sanity \San"i*ty\, n. [L. sanitas, from sanus sound, healthy. See Sane.] The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sanity

early 15c., "healthy condition," from Middle French sanité "health," from Latin sanitatem (nominative sanitas) "health, sanity," from sanus "healthy; sane" (see sane). Meaning "soundness of mind" first attested c.1600.

Wiktionary
sanity

n. 1 The condition of being sane. 2 reasonable and rational behaviour.

WordNet
sanity

n. normal or sound powers of mind [syn: saneness] [ant: insanity]

Wikipedia
Sanity

Sanity (from ) refers to the soundness, rationality and healthiness of the human mind, as opposed to insanity. A person is not considered sane anymore just if he/she is irrational. In modern society, the terms have become exclusively synonymous with compos mentis , in contrast with non compos mentis, or insane, meaning troubled conscience. A sane mind is nowadays considered healthy both from its analytical -once called rational- and emotional aspects. Furthermore, according to Chesterton, sanity involves wholeness, whereas insanity implies narrowness and brokenness.

Sanity (demogroup)

Sanity was an all-German demo group, formed in March 1990 by Panther and Hawk. The group quickly took in Vindicator and Cruiser as well. Their first production (presumably) was the musicdisk Best Game Music Monthly #1, which announced the birth of the group.

Sanity invented the "rotozoomer" demo effect, a well known demoscene effect.

Sanity (disambiguation)

Sanity may refer to:

  • Sanity, a legal term for an individual of sound mind who can therefore bear legal responsibility for their actions
  • "Sanity" (song), a song by Killing Joke
  • Sanity (demogroup), an Amiga demo group
  • Sanity (music store), an Australian music store chain
  • Sanity: Aiken's Artifact, a 2000 video game developed by Monolith Productions
Sanity (music store)

Sanity is an Australian chain of music and entertainment stores and is the country's second largest retailer of recorded audio and video discs. It is privately owned by Ray Itaoui, and as of March 2015, Sanity comprises 155 outlets in every state and territory. The brand specialises in the sale of CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and related merchandise and accessories, sold from its network of stores and website. The Sanity brand was owned and conceived by Brazin Limited from 1992, before being folded into BB Retail Capital in 2006, then became a company in its own right after it was divested to Itaoui in 2009.

Sanity (song)

"Sanity" is Killing Joke's second single from their sixth studio album, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns. It was released on 30 October 1986. The single peaked at No. 70 in the UK Singles chart.

Usage examples of "sanity".

In the barouche on the ride home, she could only question her own sanity at ever taking Ruark Beauchamp as husband.

In some ways, he was the most powerful Hortator here, because the special psychological uniformity of the Invariants, the so-called Protocols of Sanity, ensured that all the populations of the Cities in Space would follow his lead.

Norberg was a confirmed monologuist, and so Boadicea was not called upon every day to speak up for reason and sanity.

The picture of that monoplane skimming down the sky, with the nameless terrors flying as swiftly beneath it and cutting it off always from the earth while they gradually closed in upon their victim, is one upon which a man who valued his sanity would prefer not to dwell.

The way Montero was watching her right now made her question her sanity in standing up to him.

We wanted to set up safeguards, though, so Scarle spent the night learning the depressive neuroses Hale said he could retreat into to protect his sanity if the going got rough.

They scampered like lunatics beneath the hidden moon, every bit of ice between them and Penultima Thule an affront to their sanity.

The reintegration of her personality was surely complete by now, but if she had gone completely around the bend into full-blown psychosis, he did not want to risk his own sanity by reading her mind.

I learned much about the power of scapegoating by watching their quiet hatred of me as they grimaced through the testimony regarding my sanity, my finances, my reputation in the community, and my sexual life with their eldest child.

The shoya was prepared, aware the thread between a sudden, berserk attack and sanity was stretched to breaking, shishi never to be trusted, one hand not far from his sleeve pocket.

She possessed a sultriness, a sensuality, and an appeal that kept him wrapped in knots, until he questioned his sanity.

The unassociated waves of unrehearsed madmen, little children incensed with fury, a dementia, their parents disassociated with all normal social significance, forgetting and blanking out reason and sanity.

We are together, and this reassurance was all that kept her from losing her grasp on sanity in that terrifying aeon of unpassing, timeless nothingness.

Metria, amazed by the assurance and sanity of her crazy worser self, which was not at all true to form, subsided.

Furthermore, after being told specifically by the Cheshire Cat that the Hatter and the March Hare are both mad, Alice, when she meets them in her next adventure, remains unin-structed and stubbornly persists in her futile attempts to relate their crazy, disordered actions to her old notions of order and sanity.