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say it: MAD-nuhs
madness is a noun meaning "obsolete terms for legal insanity". It carries 5 recorded senses.
obsolete terms for legal insanity
an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
the quality of being rash and foolish
“trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly”
“adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for madness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.