Get to know Madness better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like lunacy or folly.
Madness in a sentence
Madness meaning
- The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
- The state of being angry.
- Rash folly.
Synonyms of Madness
Using Madness
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease. | The state of being angry. | Rash folly.
- Useful related words include: lunacy, folly, ire, choler.
- In the example corpus, madness often appears in combinations such as: march madness, of madness, the madness.
Context around Madness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Madness
- In this selection, "madness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, movie, march, critical, people, employee and brilliant stand out and add context to how "madness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a critical madness people get and a different madness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "madness" sits close to words such as charitable, emphasised and endorsement, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with madness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And with it, madness. (4 words)
It's still madness, but a different madness. (8 words)
A peace not yet found in this invasion of madness. (10 words)
But the Italian writer’s aim was to “to convert intellect into passion” and his best works succeed in doing so. is about madness, the appearance of madness, and the consequence of deciding to become trapped within the appearance of madness. (41 words)
When we are collectively forced to renegotiate the boundaries between work and play, games that look like both take center stage, demonstrating that the madness of solving a diversionary puzzle can serve as a salve for the madness of daily life. (41 words)
A local residents’ group called Stop de Gekte recorded the “madness” by patrolling the streets in high vis jackets telling tourists to behave – until announcing this week that “intimidation and threats” from local business owners had forced them to stop. (40 words)
When love gets to a critical madness, people get married to reduce the madness to manageable increments of madness — like who keeps track of the vacuum cleaner attachments? (28 words)
Already the official March Madness bracket-busters, why not go for another? (12 words)
Read on for recommendations written by trusty Movie Madness employee Quinn, and then keep on reading for picks from the rest of Movie Madness' brilliant-and-only-possibly-slightly-stoned staff! (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
When love gets to a critical madness, people get married to reduce the madness to manageable increments of madness — like who keeps track of the vacuum cleaner attachments?
But the Italian writer’s aim was to “to convert intellect into passion” and his best works succeed in doing so. is about madness, the appearance of madness, and the consequence of deciding to become trapped within the appearance of madness.
But the Edmund party carries bold rationalism to such extremes that it becomes madness: a madness-in-reason, the ironic counterpart of Lear's "reason in madness" (IV.6.190) and the Fool's wisdom-in-folly.
When we are collectively forced to renegotiate the boundaries between work and play, games that look like both take center stage, demonstrating that the madness of solving a diversionary puzzle can serve as a salve for the madness of daily life.
It's still madness, but a different madness.
Her Lady is of the traditional reading, rising to the occasion as she attempts to mask the madness at the meal, but never fully finding the right power in her own dream induced madness.
Read on for recommendations written by trusty Movie Madness employee Quinn, and then keep on reading for picks from the rest of Movie Madness' brilliant-and-only-possibly-slightly-stoned staff!
For example, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization is both a history and an inspection of cultural attitudes about madness.
Some people say that, whilst uttering what seemed madness, he was, in reality, divinely inspired, and that it was not madness but wisdom that he uttered.
This madness was the “angry fix” that society needed to function—madness was its disease.
Thomas Szasz 's book My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf was published in 2006.
About the madness of an indiscriminate and disjointed approach to recruitment that meant a club could spend £600million in a year and become far, far worse for it.
Alas, this is starting to look like an exercise in madness at a level of human stupidity seldom witnessed in the history of civilized society.
A less-heralded entry is another adaptation — Prime Video’s gender-swapped “Dead Ringers,” which could be carried into contention by Rachel Weisz’s dazzling lead performances as twin gynecologists in whom madness is gestating.
A local residents’ group called Stop de Gekte recorded the “madness” by patrolling the streets in high vis jackets telling tourists to behave – until announcing this week that “intimidation and threats” from local business owners had forced them to stop.
Already the official March Madness bracket-busters, why not go for another?
Also known as in-play betting, you will be able to find live odds on spreads, totals and moneylines during games throughout March Madness.
And with it, madness.
Anwar said Malaysia believes everyone must work together to stop this madness of the continued killing practiced by Israel in Palestine, specifically in the Gaza Strip, which affects the lives of innocent people in hospitals and public places.
A peace not yet found in this invasion of madness.
Common combinations with madness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- march madness 46×
- of madness 36×
- the madness 24×
- madness and 17×
- madness of 11×
- madness to 7×
- madness the 7×
- this madness 7×
- into madness 7×
- madness is 6×