lunacy

1 obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: madness, insaneness]

2 foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, indulgence]

English

Etymology

From lunatic + -cy.

Pronunciation

• a UK /ˈluː.nə.si /|/ˈljuː.nə.si/, /"lu:.n@.sI/
• a US /ˈluː.nə.si /

Noun

1. In the context of "of a person or group of people": The state of being mad, insanity.
2. Something deeply misguided.

Synonyms

• sense state of being mad insanity

Derived terms

• lunatic

Translations

Lunacy may refer to:

• Lunacy, slang for mental illness
• Lunacy (film), a 2005 Jan Švankmajer's film
• Lunacy (video game), a video game for Sega Saturn
• Lunacy (album), by Luna Sea
• Lunacy (band), an alternative punk rock group from Charlotte, North Carolina in the mid 1990s

aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, asininity, battiness, brain damage, brainlessness, brainsickness, buffoonery, clouded mind, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, desipience, disorientation, distraction, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folie, folly, foolery, foolhardiness, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, furor, giddiness, goofiness, idiocy, illogic, illogicality, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindlessness, mindsickness, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, oddness, pixilation, possession, preposterousness, psychopathy, psychosis, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, ridiculousness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, silliness, strangeness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism