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lunacy
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: madness , insaneness ] foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly , foolery , tomfoolery , craziness , indulgence ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lunacy may refer to: Lunacy, the condition suffered by a lunatic , now used only informally Lunacy (film) , a 2005 Jan Švankmajer's film Lunacy (video game) , a video game for the Sega Saturn video game console Luna Sea , a Japanese rock band originally ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunacy \Lu"na*cy\, n.; pl. Lunacies . [See Lunatic .] Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE sheer ▪ Does he agree that such a policy - it is, of course, Labour policy - would be sheer lunacy ? ▪ It seemed an act of sheer lunacy . ▪ And fans are in no doubt as to where bravery ends and sheer lunacy begins. ...
Usage examples of lunacy.
I feared to reveal the truth, for they might take my claim to be a Hibernating Man as a sign of lunacy, and keep me locked up indefinitely.
For in a blinding white flame had come to me the realization of why Meve MacDonnal had come from her tomb to bring me the ancient cross which had lain in her bosom for three hundred years, gathering unto itself unseen forces of good and light, which war forever against the shapes of lunacy and shadow.
There are those in the Ecclesia who already suggest we should be, and the Premia Sancta herself saw to it we were prohibited from worshiping in publicthough Duke Alejandro now has rescinded that bit of lunacy.
They had suggested certain readings, introduced her to mandalic art and mantric music, subsidized a retreat at a Zen monastery, bought her biofeedback equipment, and in general, rather than dismiss her experience and that of her generation as aberrant lunacy, had gently persuaded her that she had, after all, been very young, and that what she had supposed was ultimate Enlightenment had only been her first steps upon the Road that goes ever on.
Alastair continued to put down intermittent lunacies and Coker Minimus with the help of one small finger slowly followed the adventures of the black colt.
Having learned the true status of Beaverwood, Margo could read lunacy into every line of the crazy structure.
Also lunatic, but the schedule at Baikonur Cosmodrome made generous allowances for lunacy.
Dark Stars north of Nova Roma, near the Julia River, and the Gurdy Men in the Fort Lunacy area.
But off the nets, the images were random, and to demand more was a step toward lunacy.
In fact, as a senator, Ashcroft was a co-sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, which was such a feminist lunacy that it had already been struck down by the U.
This charge Mr. Guppy delivers in a state little short of forensic lunacy, while his friend shows a dazed mind in his whole head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers.
Joe Edwards' candidacy as pure demented lunacy -- a form of surly madness so wrong and rotten that only the Wretched and the Scum of the Earth could give it a moment's thought.
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Race has become an obsession, to the point of lunacy - this business with the coloured English cricketer, what is his name again?
If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark.