madness

noun

1. 1

   unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

   poetry is a sort of divine madness

2. 2

   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

3. 3

   a feeling of intense anger

   hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

   his face turned red with rage

4. 4

   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

5. 5

   obsolete terms for legal insanity