Meaning & use
craziness
The quality or state of being wildly irrational, chaotic, or unconventional.
See it in a sentence
Amid the craziness of the holiday sales, she managed to find the perfect gift.
His plan sounded like pure craziness, yet it somehow worked.
A note on using this word
Craziness is informal; more formal writing prefers words like irrationality or absurdity.
Words with a similar meaning
madnessinsanity
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
sanitycalm
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