vesania

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noun

Madness, insanity, mental derangement.

OriginLatin vēsānia →
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Meanings

nounvesania (uncountable)
  1. uncountableMadness, insanity, mental derangement.

    2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)

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    1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...

Origin

  1. Latinvēsānia
  2. Englishvesania

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsānia, derived from vēsānus (“mad, insane”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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