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English
Etymology
From lunatic + -cy.
Pronunciation
Noun
lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)
- (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
- a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
- insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
- Something deeply misguided.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
state of being mad
- Bulgarian: лудост (bg) f (ludost)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 精神病 (zh) (jīngshénbìng), 神經病／神经病 (zh) (shénjīngbìng)
- Danish: galskab c
- Dutch: gekheid (nl), krankzinnigheid (nl), waanzin (nl)
- Finnish: hulluus (fi)
- French: folie (fr) f
- German: Verrücktheit (de) f, Wahnsinn (de) m
- Irish: gealtachas m
- Italian: pazzia (it) f
- Manx: ard-ommidjys m
- Marathi: वेड n (veḍ)
- Norwegian: galskap (no) m
- Old English: mōnaþsēocnes f
- Ottoman Turkish: جنت (cinnet), مجنونلق (mecnunluk)
- Plautdietsch: Wonsenn m
- Polish: obłęd (pl) m, niepoczytalność (pl) f
- Russian: безу́мие (ru) n (bezúmije), невменя́емость (ru) f (nevmenjájemostʹ), помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo), сумасше́ствие (ru) n (sumasšéstvije), умопомеша́тельство (ru) n (umopomešátelʹstvo)
- Spanish: locura (es) f
- Turkish: cinnet (tr), çılgınlık (tr), delilik (tr)
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cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
something deeply misguided
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