Antonyms for sanity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : san-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsæn ɪ ti

Definition of sanity

Origin : early 15c., "healthy condition," from Middle French sanité "health," from Latin sanitatem (nominative sanitas) "health, sanity," from sanus "healthy; sane" (see sane). Meaning "soundness of mind" first attested c.1600.

noun mental health; soundness of judgment

Example sentences :

It was Pfeiffer who drew her out of the room and tried to talk reason and sanity to her.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

There ought to be some other word that doesn't accuse his sanity in that degree.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

Then you regained your sanity and put him in his rightful place.
Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Sanity may play with insanity; but insanity must not be allowed to play with sanity.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

But if they had, one of them at least would have doubted the young man's sanity.
Extract from : « In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories » by Robert Barr

Doubt has been cast on his sincerity and also on his sanity.
Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet

I really believe you have saved the sanity of my friend Wentworth.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

Sanity is a capacity for becoming accustomed to the monstrous.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

His sanity warned him that what he had seen had truly happened, and that the man was dead.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

Synonyms for sanity

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