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lunacy
[ loo-nuh-see ]
noun
- insanity; mental disorder.
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- intermittent insanity, formerly believed to be related to phases of the moon.
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- extreme foolishness or an instance of it:
Her decision to resign was sheer lunacy.
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- unsoundness of mind sufficient to incapacitate one for civil transactions: a former legal term.
lunacy
/ ˈːəɪ /
noun
- (formerly) any severe mental illness
- foolishness or a foolish act
Example Sentences
This kind of self-destructive lunacy received theological sanction in the pages of First Things, a right-wing religious publication that fancies itself a bearer of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, but comes off more like Torquemada.
The Wall Street Journal lambasted the lunacy of it.
Letting Musk end them on the say-so of an anonymous tweeter is lunacy.
Maybe that’s exactly what it is, for Mel Gibson has certainly added his own brand of lunacy to explaining our current political climate.
Yes, much of it was the standard lunacy about showerheads and whales and windmills.
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