Unsoundness

  • 41sickness — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness, cardiovascular disease,… …

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  • 42strangeness — Synonyms and related words: Kern, NMR, aberration, abnormality, absurdity, alienation, alpha particle, anomaly, antibaryon, anticness, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, baryon, beta particle, bizarreness, bizarrerie, brain… …

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  • 43unbalance — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, asymmetry, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, contrariety, craze, craziness, daftness, dement, dementedness, dementia, derange, derangement, difference, disbalance,… …

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  • 44unsound —    not to be trusted    More from a faulty ship than from the legal jargon for mental illness, of unsound mind.    Among bureaucrats, of judgement rather than honesty. Among autocrats, unsoundness indicates unwelcome independence of thought or… …

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  • 45Hollowness — Hol low*ness, n. 1. State of being hollow. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 46Insane — In*sane , a. [L. insanus. See {In } not, and {Sane}.] 1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See {Insanity}, 2. [1913 Webster] 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an… …

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  • 47Lunacies — Lunacy Lu na*cy, n.; pl. {Lunacies}. [See {Lunatic}.] 1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind,… …

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  • 48Lunacy — Lu na*cy, n.; pl. {Lunacies}. [See {Lunatic}.] 1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except… …

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  • 49Melancholia — Mel an*cho li*a, n. [L. See {Melancholy}.] (Med.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 50Melancholy — Mel an*chol*y, n. [OE. melancolie, F. m[ e]lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ?; me las, me lanos, black + ? gall, bile. See {Malice}, and 1st {Gall}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep… …

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