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lunacies

lunacies is the plural of lunacy.

Meaning of lunacy

Noun

lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)

  1. A cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.
  2. Insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
  3. 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.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI)

Questions about lunacies

What is lunacies the plural of?
Lunacies is the plural of lunacy.

Words near lunacies in the dictionary

  1. lunabase
  2. Lunabella
  3. Lunabelle
  4. lunachick
  5. lunachicks
  6. lunacies
  7. lunacy
  8. lunamarine
  9. lunambulism
  10. Lunan
  11. Lunan Bay

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