Synonyms for sanity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : san-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsæn ɪ ti

Top 10 synonyms for sanity Other synonyms for the word sanity

Définition 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

Antonyms for sanity

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