madness

noun

1. obsolete terms for legal insanity
2. an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
3. a feeling of intense anger"hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
4. the quality of being rash and foolish"trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"
5. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm"poetry is a sort of divine madness"