What does insane mean?
Insane means Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad..
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/ɪnˈseɪn/ · adjective
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad..
What is the cause of insanity? Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that, but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins, and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling part of the story—the other half of the people who go insane apparently have nothing organically wrong with their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered microscopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as yours and mine. Why do these people go insane?
And you told me not to drive But I made it home alive So you said that only proves that I'm insane
an insane hospital
an insane asylum
Were such things here, as we doe speake about? / Or haue we eaten on the insane Root, / That takes the Reason Prisoner?
an insane plan
an insane amount of money
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
Use insane when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Insane means Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad..
Common synonyms include 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad.
Possible antonyms include sane, sober.
What is the cause of insanity? Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that, but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins, and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling part of the story—the other half of the people who go insane apparently have nothing organically wrong with their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered microscopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as yours and mine. Why do these people go insane?
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