lunacy
UK/ˈluː.nə.si//ˈluː.nə.si/
lunacy noun: a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.
Noun
lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural 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.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI)
lunacy meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
lunacy in Tamil
- கிறுக்கு, பித்தியம், பித்து, பித்துநிலை, முட்டாள்தனம், மடமை
lunacy in Marathi
- state of being mad
- वेड veḍ
lunacy in Urdu
- lunacy, insanity, madness, craziness
- جنون junūn
lunacy in Bengali
- পাগলামি, উন্মাত্ততা
More languagesFewer languages
- lunacy in Malayalam
- ചിത്തഭ്രമം cittabhramaṁ
- lunacy in Kannada
- ಹುಚ್ಚು, ಬುದ್ಧಿವಿಕಲ್ಪ, ಚಿತ್ತಭ್ರಮಣೆ, ಉನ್ಮಾದ ಭ್ರಮೆ
Synonyms of lunacy
Forms of lunacy
| plural | lunacies |
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Origin of lunacy
From lun(atic) + -acy.
Words formed from lunacy
- balloonacy
- commission of lunacy
Questions about lunacy
- What does lunacy mean?
- Lunacy means a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.
- What is lunacy in Tamil?
- Lunacy in Tamil is கிறுக்கு, பித்தியம், பித்து. See Lunacy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lunacy?
- Lunacy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lunacy?
- Lunacy is pronounced /ˈluː.nə.si/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lunacy?
- The plural of lunacy is lunacies.
Words near lunacy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lunacy (page history and authors); lunacy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جنون (Urdu) (page history and authors); lunacy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ചിത്തഭ്രമം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); lunacy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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