Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disease of the mind; insanity.
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- noun
Madness ,insanity , mental derangement.
Etymologies
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From Latin vesania, from vesanus ‘mad’, from ve- ‘not’ + sanus ‘sane’.
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Examples
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Now there is no more reason for attributing madness to Gilles than there is for attributing it to Jeanne d'Arc, whose admirable excesses certainly have no connection with vesania and delirium.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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In persons of sound antecedents it rarely, under these circumstances, suffices to produce an actual vesania. "[
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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