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Meaning of vesania | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Madness, insanity, mental derangement.

uncountable

Equivalents

Português vesânia

Examples

“2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)”
“1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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