What is "madnesses"

Usage examples of "madnesses".

Could he not simply ignore the things that threatened him, ignore the opposing impossibilities, madnesses, of his situation-return to the Stonedown and pretend with blithe guile that he was Berek Halfhand reborn?

But Lord Foul was using his ring to bring crushing together the opposite madnesses which he needed so desperately to escape.

They made the journey in a fever, but when they put forth their applications were careful to hide the inner madnesses that drove them.

Psychotic capitalism, faced by total defeat in the next war, has loosed against the Workers’ Republics a final filthy weapon: its own collective madnesses and herd delusions, catalyzed by subtle and electronic and chemical bombardments of the collective Soviet nerve tissue.