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 Translation for 'madness' from English to Danish
NOUN   a madness | madnesses
SYNO craziness | folly | foolishness | ...
madnessgalskab {fk}
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Translation for 'madness' from English to Danish

madness
galskab {fk}
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Usage Examples English
  • Other traditions place Heracles' madness at a later time, and relate the circumstances differently.
  • The booklet contains a modification of the "Stop the Madness Campaign" against the use of hard drugs, used by Roadrunner Records in the 1980s.
  • From the viewpoint of Platonism and Neo-Platonism, "Zanoni" evokes the themes of the four types of divine madness covered in Plato's "Phaedrus": These are "prophetic", "initiatic", "poetic" and "erotic" madness.
  • In Euripides' play "Heracles Gone Mad", Iris appears alongside Lyssa, the goddess of madness and insanity, cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.
  • Mortals also have a terror level and a madness level, with certain limits to each.

  • Pausanias writes that at the road from Megalopolis to Messene there was a sanctuary of goddesses Maniae (meaning madness). Citizens said that it was there that madness overtook Orestes.
  • In 1994, coordinator Phil Champlin introduced the concept of "madness."
  • The symptoms of prairie madness were similar to those of depression.
  • ... 634–562 BC) took Jerusalem in 597 BC, but the madness plot of the opera differs from both archeological and biblical records of him.
  • The novel is not about the fight between good and evil but rather the differences between madness and reason—and it is the fairy world that is connected to madness (mad people can see fairies, for example).

  • Independent awarded a rating of four out of five, commenting: "Sono may indulge in madness, but it's not madness without reason".
  • In a fit of madness induced by Hera, Heracles killed his children by Megara. His madness was cured using hellebore.
  • Simulations of madness are performed to forego punishment after committing a crime.
  • The Lord Justice in his summary asked the jury to consider whether the acts might be the result of madness as a malady or temporary madness caused by drunkenness.
  • Can madness be described? Is it possible to express the pain that it entails?

  • Foucault writes at the start of the second chapter of "Madness and Civilization" of a strange violent event that silenced madness at the end of the renaissance and the beginning of the classical age.
  • He called the condition "dementia praecocissima" (Latin, "very premature madness"), by analogy to the term then used for schizophrenia, "dementia praecox" (Latin, "premature madness).
  • In 1967, 'David Cooper provided an introduction to Foucault's "Madness and Civilization" which began "Madness has in our age become some sort of lost truth"' - a statement not atypical of 'a time which posterity now readily regards as half-crazed'.
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