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vesania

vesania noun: madness, insanity, mental derangement.

Noun

vesania (uncountable)

  1. Madness, insanity, mental derangement.
    • 2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)
    • 1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...

vesania meaning in Tamil

vesania in Tamil

முழு உளப்பிணி

Origin of vesania

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsānia, derived from vēsānus (“mad, insane”).

Questions about vesania

What does vesania mean?
Vesania means madness, insanity, mental derangement.
What is vesania in Tamil?
Vesania in Tamil is முழு உளப்பிணி. See Vesania meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vesania?
Vesania is a noun.

Words near vesania in the dictionary

  1. VESA
  2. Vesak
  3. Vesalian
  4. vesalianum
  5. vesamicol
  6. vesania
  7. vesanic
  8. vesatolimod
  9. vesbine
  10. vesbite
  11. vesbites

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