Madness
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| - | [[Image:The Remorse of Nero by Waterhouse.jpg|left|thumb|200px|''The [[Remorse]] of [[Nero]] After the [[Matricide|Murder of His Mother]]'' ([[1878]]) by [[John William Waterhouse]]]] | + | [[Image:The Remorse of Nero by Waterhouse.jpg|left|thumb|200px|''[[The Remorse of the Emperor Nero after the Murder of his Mother]]'' (1878) by John William Waterhouse]] |
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| + | "[[There is no great genius without some touch of madness]]" --Seneca, ''De Tranquillitate Animi'' | ||
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| [[Image:Portrait of a Kleptomaniac or Portrait of an Insane Person (French L'Aliéné or Le Kleptomane) is a 1822 oil painting by Théodore Géricault.jpg|thumb|right||200px|''[[Portrait of a Kleptomaniac]]'' (1822) by [[Théodore Géricault]]]] | [[Image:Portrait of a Kleptomaniac or Portrait of an Insane Person (French L'Aliéné or Le Kleptomane) is a 1822 oil painting by Théodore Géricault.jpg|thumb|right||200px|''[[Portrait of a Kleptomaniac]]'' (1822) by [[Théodore Géricault]]]] | ||
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| '''Madness''' is the state of being mad ([[insane]]) or [[angry]]. | '''Madness''' is the state of being mad ([[insane]]) or [[angry]]. | ||
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| *[[Antisocial personality disorder]] | *[[Antisocial personality disorder]] | ||
| *[[Illness]] | *[[Illness]] | ||
| *[[Insanity]] | *[[Insanity]] | ||
| *[[Irrationality]] | *[[Irrationality]] | ||
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| *''[[Madness and Civilization]]'' | *''[[Madness and Civilization]]'' | ||
| *[[Mad emperors of Rome]] | *[[Mad emperors of Rome]] | ||
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| *[[Madwoman]] | *[[Madwoman]] | ||
| *[[Mental disorder]] | *[[Mental disorder]] | ||
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Madness is the state of being mad (insane) or angry.
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Etymology
Middle English medd, madd, from Old English gemǣd (“enraged”), from gemād (“silly, mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz (compare Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), Gothic gamaiþs (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), past participle of *maidijaną (“to cripple, injure”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei (“to change”) (compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).
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See also
- Amour fou
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Illness
- Insanity
- Irrationality
- Love is madness
- Madness and Civilization
- Mad emperors of Rome
- Madman
- Madwoman
- Mental disorder
- Obsession
- Psychopathy
- Stone of madness
- Unreason
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Music
- Madness (band), a British ska/pop band
- "Madness", a song by Prince Buster from I Feel the Spirit, also covered by Madness
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