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Date Posted: 13:54:31 08/19/03 Tue
Author: Lee Miller
Subject: Insanity
In reply to: Lee Miller 's message, "Results from Pikes Peak 1/2 and full marathon" on 18:35:20 08/17/03 Sun

in�san�i�ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-sn-t)
n. pl. in�san�i�ties
Persistent mental disorder or derangement. No longer in scientific use.
Law.
Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility.
In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act committed.

Extreme foolishness; folly.
Something that is extremely foolish.
Synonyms: insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, dementia
These nouns denote conditions of serious mental disability. Insanity is a grave, often prolonged condition that prevents a person from being held legally responsible for his or her actions: was judged not guilty for reasons of insanity. Lunacy often denotes derangement relieved intermittently by periods of clear-mindedness: yelled wildly in a moment of utter lunacy. Madness often stresses the violent aspect of mental illness: a story about obsession and madness. Mania refers principally to the excited, or manic, phase of bipolar disorder: prescribed drugs to control the patient's periods of mania. Dementia implies mental deterioration brought on by an organic brain disorder: underwent progressive stages of dementia.

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slow day at work? (NT) -- get back to work Lee! (nt), 15:43:15 08/19/03 Tue

With Lee, it's always a slow day at work (NT) -- Big Brother is Watching You, 17:29:46 08/19/03 Tue