What does lunacy mean?
Lunacy means (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity.
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/ˈluː.nə.si/ · noun
(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity.
Two days have passed since that day of lunacy. What a noise and a fuss and a chattering and an uproar there was! And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners! And I the cause of it all! Yet part of the scene was also ridiculous—at all events to myself it was so.
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Lunacy means (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity.
Common synonyms include insanity, madness, craziness, craze.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Two days have passed since that day of lunacy. What a noise and a fuss and a chattering and an uproar there was! And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners! And I the cause of it all! Yet part of the scene was also ridiculous—at all events to myself it was so.
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