lunacy

1. 1.

   obsolete terms for legal insanity

   Synonymsmadnessinsaneness

   Broaderinsanity
2. 2.

   foolish or senseless behavior

   Synonymsfollyfoolerytomfoolerycrazinessindulgence

   Broaderplay

   Narrowermeshugaasbuffoonery

Other forms of lunacy

plural

lunacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lunacy

What does lunacy mean?

lunacy means "obsolete terms for legal insanity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lunacy?

lunacy has 3 syllables: lu-na-cy. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˈlunəsi/.

What is another word for lunacy?

Close synonyms include madness, insaneness, folly, foolery, tomfoolery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lunacy a common word?

lunacy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.