Crossword clues for craziness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Craziness \Cra"zi*ness\, n.
The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.
The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "infirmity," from crazy + -ness. Meaning "state of being flawed or damaged" is from 1660s; that of mental unsoundness" is from 1755.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. 3 (context countable English) The result or product of being crazy.
WordNet
the quality of being rash and foolish [syn: folly, foolishness]
foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, lunacy, indulgence]
Usage examples of "craziness".
People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated by Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness.
He couldn't understand what we now know: Mankind could not meet the terrible people of Arachosia without the people of Arachosia following them home and bringing to mankind a grief greater than grief, a craziness worse than mere insanity, a plague surpassing all imaginable plagues.
Life had just begun to be getting a little settled again, after the craziness of the late summer, after the desperate intervention in which they had all been involved in the Old Downside, in which Arhu gained his wizardry and Saash lost hers, or rather took it up in a more profound version after her ninth death—though either way she was lost to the team now.
Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads.
Get to a safe place, call the police, then stay put until this craziness is over.
I know she isn't easy, I know she's a little crazy, maybe a lot crazy, but so am I, Mum, and these two crazinesses, they fit together comfortably.
The inference was crazy—but if this was a world in which djinns were real, then craziness was sense.
So don't let your wife's craziness fool you, all that drinking and messing around with floozies like Lacey -- you got to learn to see through a woman like that.
It seemed to him, as he walked down the stony path to where he'd locked his bicycle to a rack, that everyone in the world was crazy, that craziness was synonymous with the human condition.
His endless muttering monologue vitiated every effort I made to think out a line of action, and drove me at times, thus pent up and intensified, almost to the verge of craziness.
But it was space-navy convention that a lone scout's job created an unavoidable craziness among all those who performed it and that ninety percent of them were overdue for psychiatric treatment.
Each crew had promptly suffered an attack of mental aberration verging upon craziness, exploded their munitions, otherwise destroyed every vestige of their respective vessels’ weaponry, and thoroughly wrecked their ships, thereby marooning themselves.
No historical anecdote had ever brought home to Fiben so well just how much agnosy and craziness poor human mels and ferns had endured.
If anything, Parkwood was the more reliable of the two but Fenton had a streak of craziness that would be invaluable on such an extreme adventure.
I had more or less deduced what she was admitting to, but I hadn’t really been prepared to accept that it was true, and for a moment I retrenched, believing again that she was crazy, that she had tricked me into swallowing her craziness as fact.