Synonyms for craziness
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Madness
madness, lunacy, insanity, foolishness, tomfoolery, mania, foolery, folly, indulgence, dementia, alienation, aberration
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The state of being crazy; madness; derangement
- n. 2
The result or product of being crazy.
Related words
- Other spellings
- crazyness
Forms
- Plural
- crazinesses → madnesses, lunacies, insanities, foolishnesses…
Choose the right word
Craziness is a vague popular term for any sort of disordered mental action, or for conduct suggesting it.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- madness Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
- insanity Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- foolishness I'm getting endlessly annoyed by this foolishness.
- lunacy Don't succumb to lunacy too much, tomorrow is your wedding!
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| craziness | rising | |
| madness | rising | |
| insanity | steady | |
| foolishness | rising | |
| lunacy | steady | |
| zaniness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- mania3, folly2
- 6 letters
- lunacy3
- 7 letters
- madness2, foolery3
- 8 letters
- dementia4, insanity4, zaniness, daftness
- 9 letters
- flakiness
- 10 letters
- indulgence3, alienation5, aberration4, tomfoolery
- 11 letters
- foolishness3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (mania3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- affolement
- Italiano
- sconvolgimento