Definition Of Insanity Wikipedia

The jurist from the hoosier state subscribes to albert einstein s definition of insanity.

Definition of insanity wikipedia. How to use insanity in a sentence. Insanity in san ĭ te a medically obsolete term for mental derangement or disorder. It s one of those nuggets that gets repeated so often that it s taken without question but there is actually no evidence that einstein ever said it. Insanity is now a purely legal term denoting a condition due to which a person lacks criminal responsibility for a crime and therefore cannot be convicted of it.

Compos having mastery of and latin. The state of being insane. A continued impetuosity of thought which for the time being totally unfits a man for judging and acting in relation to the matter in question with the composure requisite for the maintenance of the social relations of life. On the meaning of insanity.

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome in 2000 a columnist working for the knight ridder news service ascribed a version of the saying to the influential lecturer and trainer werner erhard although the name was. Definition from wiktionary the free dictionary. Sānitās refers to the soundness rationality and health of the human mind as opposed to insanity a person is sane if they are rational in modern society the term has become exclusively synonymous with compos mentis latin. Insanity can be manifest as violations of societal norms including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people conceptually mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon.

Mentis mind in contrast with non compos mentis or insanity meaning troubled conscience. Insanity definition not in technical use as a medical diagnosis the condition of being insane. The physician james cowles prichard first used the phrase to describe a mental disorder in 1835 in his treatise on. Miller keane encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine nursing and allied health seventh.

Insanity definition is a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder. Insanity madness and craziness are terms that describe a spectrum of individual and group behaviors that are characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.