Madness
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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness" --Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi |
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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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