名词
1. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
e.g. poetry is a sort of divine madness
Synonym: rabidityrabidness
2. the quality of being rash and foolish
e.g. trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly
adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness
Synonym: follyfoolishnesscraziness
3. a feeling of intense anger
e.g. hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
his face turned red with rage
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
Synonym: rabieshydrophobialyssa
5. obsolete terms for legal insanity
Synonym: lunacyinsaneness