1) Abnormal mind 2) Affective disorder 3) Cognitive disorder 4) Craziness 5) Derangement 6) Diseased mind 7) Disordered intellect 8) Disordered reason 9) Extreme folly 10) Foolhardiness 11) Lunacy 12) Madness 13) Mental disease 14) Mental illness 15) Neurosis 16) Psychopathy 17) Psychosis 18) Senselessness
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1) Craziness 2) Daftness 3) Dementedness 4) Dementia 5) Derangement 6) Flakiness 7) Folie 8) Insaneness 9) Irrationality 10) Lunacy 11) Madness 12) Mania 13) Plea 14) Unreason
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Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage, insanity is most commonly encountered as a...
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• (n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. • (n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
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in criminal law, condition of mental disorder or mental defect that relieves a person of criminal responsibility for his conduct. Tests of insanity ... [4 related articles]
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1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. 'All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity.' (Johnson) 'Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure.' (Cowper) ... 2. Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, wit...
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(in-san´ĭ-te) a medically obsolete term for mental derangement or disorder. Insanity is now a purely legal term, denoting a condition due to which a person lacks criminal responsibility for a crime and therefore cannot be convicted of it. adj., insane´.
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A state of mind which is unsound and leading to a person being mentally unstable and ill. He/she cannot distinguish between whats wrong and whats right nor are they able to maintain the legal bindings of the contracts. If such be the case the court genuine considers the person unfit for the trial also.
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In·san'i·ty noun [ Latin
insanitas unsoundness; confer
insania insanity, French
insanite .]
1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. « All power of fancy over reason is a degree of
insanity .»
Johnson....
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Type: Term Pronunciation: in-san′i-tē Definitions: 1. An outmoded term referring to severe mental illness or psychosis. 2. In law, the degree of mental illness that negates the patient's legal responsibility or capacity.
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See: criminal insanity
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[
n] - relatively permanent disorder of the mind
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In medicine and law, any mental disorder in which the patient cannot be held responsible for their actions. The term is no longer used to refer to psychosis
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The legal (not clinical) designation for the state of an individual judged to be legally irresponsible or incompetent.
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the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. · such unsoundness of mind as affects legal responsibility or capacity. · (formerly) psychosis. · extreme folly; senselessness; foolhardiness.
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A legal term that refers to the mental inability to take responsibility for one's actions.
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