Thesaurus:insanity
English
Noun
Sense: state of being insane; an unhealthy mental state
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Meronyms
- acataphasia
- akathisia
- amnesia
- aphasia
- catalepsy
- catatonia
- codependency
- delirium
- delusion
- dysphasia
- dysphoria
- echolalia
- formication
- fugue state
- glossolalia
- hallucination
- heterolalia
- hypermnesia
- idée fixe
- monophasia
- neolalia
- obsession
- palilalia
- paresthesia
- paramnesia
- paranoia
- paranomia
- paraphasia
- paresis
- phrenesis
- schizophasia
- total recall
- word salad
Coordinate terms
Various
- addiction
- anxiety
- behavioral crisis
- complex [⇒ thesaurus]
- delusion of grandeur
- dementia
- ecstasy
- fixation
- frenzy
- hypochondria
- hypochondriasis
- kleptomania
- lypemania (archaic)
- general paresis of the insane
- maladjustment
- malaise
- neurasthenia (dated)
- nosomania
- nympholepsy
- phobia
- phrenitis
- psychasthenia (dated)
- psychopathology
- pyromania
- repression
- senility
See also
- Thesaurus:insane
- Thesaurus:mad person
- Category:en:Clinical psychology
Further reading
- “503. insanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “insanity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.