lunacy
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lunacy
- /ˈluː.nə.si/ UK
- /ˈljuː.nə.si/ UK
- /ˈluː.nə.si/ US
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From lun(atic) + -acy.
noun lunacies
- A cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.
- Insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
- Something deeply misguided. 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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noun state of being mad
| Español | locura, lunatismo |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 精神病 jīngshénbìng, 神經病 /神经病 shénjīngbìng |
| Français | folie |
| Deutsch | Verrücktheit, Wahnsinn |
| Italiano | pazzia |
| Русский | безу́мие bezúmije, невменя́емость nevmenjájemostʹ, помеша́тельство pomešátelʹstvo, сумасше́ствие sumasšéstvije, умопомеша́тельство umopomešátelʹstvo |
Talk about this word "lunacy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lunacy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. lunacy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lunacy "lunacy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lunacy.
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@misc{lunacy_2026,
title = {lunacy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lunacy},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
