transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnsænɪti ]
1.
Insanity is the state of being insane.
The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.
= madness
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you describe a decision or an action as insanity , you think it is very foolish.
...the final financial insanity of the 1980s.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp , oft N of n [ disapproval ]