form of insanity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandinsanity
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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insanity
noun[U]
uk/ɪnˈsæn.ə.ti/us/ɪnˈsæn.ə.t̬i/
the condition of being seriously ...
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(Definition offormandinsanityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Influenced by medical opinion, which was inclined to view drunkenness as a temporaryformofinsanity, state officials insisted on normal burial.
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Take such a pitifulformofinsanityas melancholia.
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In the case of another commonformofinsanity, manic depressive insanity, the proportion is slightly less, but still high, 4.1 per thousand.
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Thatformofinsanityis commonly of a temporary nature.
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That is aformofinsanitywhich ought to be dealt with.
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Should proceedings be taken against a spouse suffering from that recurrentformofinsanitywhen inside or outside an institution?
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All the poets of all the ages have regarded the passion of romantic love as aformofinsanity.
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In the 1970s, devolution—even administrative devolution—was a pipe dream, and to think about devolution of policing powers and criminal justice was a mildformofinsanity.
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He was reprieved because it was found that he was suffering from that particularformofinsanitycalled paranoia, which means that a man will argue logically from wrong premises.
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A hyper-intellectual, his communication and personal deficiencies evidence a mentality pushed near if not into a mildformofinsanityby information-overload.
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Originally, anyformofinsanitycaused by the voluntary use of drugs was not an eligible defense for a criminal offense.
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Obsession with a fixed idea is a commonformofinsanity.
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In psychology, cacodemonia (or cacodemomania) is aformofinsanityin which the patient believes that they are possessed by an evil spirit.
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Mania, the last of the three traditional forms of insanity, was also distinguished by the lack of fever.
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This leads to the modern concept of alienation, which permits what had previously been undifferentiated forms of insanity to be ' diagnosed ' as mental illnesses with distinct aetiologies.
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There are certain forms of insanity which are cyclical.
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Physicians in the early 19th century started to diagnose forms of insanity that involved disturbed emotions and behaviors but seemingly without significant intellectual impairment or delusions or hallucinations.
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There was a focus on identifying the particular psychological faculty involved in particular forms of insanity, including through phrenology, although some argued for a more central unitary cause.
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