Relatively permanent disorder of the mind

Usage examples of insanity.

The same may be said of feigned insanity, aphonia, deaf-mutism, and loss of memory.

Gift from UpstairsGod, the irreverent insanity down here, after a lifetime ase, and the politics, and the Movement.

But if during the interval of lucidity they manifest no desire to receive Baptism, they should not be baptized while in a state of insanity.

And when they left for Bodach, he would go along with them, claiming that it would be insanity for them to refuse his help in such a place, and that they owed him at least that much for having come to their aid.

Her insanity had grown more virulent throughout the treatment and, despairing, Brock had eventually stopped them.

Both Fassola and Torrotti say that Tabachetti had just begun to work on this chapel when he lost his reason, but as the work is described as complete in the 1586 edition of Caccia, it is evident, as I have already shown, that his insanity was only temporary, inasmuch as he did another chapel after 1590.

Her heart pounding heavily in her breast, she cowded closer and told herself this was crazy, sheer insanity.

And with that decision she put her ductless glands in a grand alliance with her insanity.

In the encounter between those two embattled enemies had lurked an intensity of passion which he could not understand, which seemed strangely akin to insanity itself.

Colors he applied with his fingers and thumbs, scooping them out of tubs until he suffered from lead encephalopathy, leading to deafness, depression, and insanity.

Galen down to the present day, about the pernicious influence of this enervating indulgence, and its strong propensity to generate the very worst and most formidable kinds of insanity.

Statistics show that insanity is increasing with alarming rapidity everywhere, yet medical experts differ widely as to the causes of mental deterioration, and science is not yet in possession of knowledge of the exact etiology of functional insanity.

Since insanity is chiefly a manifestation of mental or psychological disturbance-a Psychic neurosis-the symptomatology therefore should offer a guidance in ascertaining the etiology, and assist as well in arriving at a solution of the 14 mental pathology.

The common type of insanity which is characterized by mild hallucinations is of less concern from a eugenic point of view.

As they raced out from under the overhanging ice the rope ladder scraped alongside and Findhorn, in a moment of pure insanity, leaped at it.