Thesaurus:insanity

THESAURUS

insanity

English

Synonyms

brainsickness

craze

craziness

derangement

insanity

lunacy

lune (obsolete)

madness

mental disorder

mental illness

unreason

Antonyms

mental health

sanity [WS]

Hyponyms

bipolar disorder

depression

hysteria

mania

manic depression

neurosis

psychosis

schizophrenia

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dementia praecox (dated)

disorganized schizophrenia

hebephrenia

macromania

megalomania

monomania

paranoid schizophrenia

Hypernyms

condition

deviance

disorder [WS]

illness

psychiatric condition

Meronyms

acataphasia

akathisia

amnesia

aphasia

catalepsy

catatonia

codependency

delirium

delusion

dysphasia

dysphoria

echolalia

formication

fugue state

glossolalia

hallucination

heterolalia

hypermnesia

idée fixe

monophasia

neolalia

obsession

palilalia

paresthesia

paramnesia

paranoia

paranomia

paraphasia

paresis

phrenesis

schizophasia

total recall

word salad

Various

addiction

anxiety

behavioral crisis

complex [WS]

delusion of grandeur

dementia

ecstasy

fixation

frenzy

hypochondria

hypochondriasis

kleptomania

lypemania (archaic)

general paresis of the insane

maladjustment

malaise

neurasthenia (dated)

nosomania

nympholepsy

phobia

phrenitis

psychasthenia (dated)

psychopathology

pyromania

repression

senility

See also

Thesaurus:insane
Thesaurus:mad person
Category:en:Clinical psychology

Further reading

“503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“insanity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

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