Meaning

3 senses
  1. The state of being mad, insanity

    (countable, uncountable)A cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases.

    Verrücktheit, Wahnsinn

    безу́миеbezúmije, невменя́емостьnevmenjájemostʹ, помеша́тельствоpomešátelʹstvo

  2. (countable, uncountable)Insanity implying legal irresponsibility.

    obsolete terms for legal insanity

  3. (countable, uncountable)Something deeply misguided.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. This is lunacy.

    Це божевілля.

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  2. It's sheer lunacy to try that.

    deEs zu versuchen, ist schier verrückt.

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  3. It is little short of lunacy to try it.

    deEs zu versuchen, ist schier verrückt.

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  4. The thought that robots might take over the world is lunacy.

    deDie Vorstellung, dass Roboter die Weltherrschaft an sich reißen könnten, ist Aberwitz.

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  5. Is it a form of lunacy to believe that the moon landings were fake?

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
state of being mad:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
state of being mad:

Origin

From lun(atic) + -acy.

From lun(atic) + -acy.

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Forms

plural: lunacies
Singularlunacy
Plurallunacies

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedlunatic
Derivedballoonacy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lunacy — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto