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What does lunacy mean?

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Noun
  1. (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
    1. a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
    2. insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
  2. Something deeply misguided.
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He can climb all over an opponent, and he can fling a game and a set and match away in moment of sheer lunacy.
Or maybe he would prefer something along the lines of suicidal confessions of a mind bordering on death and raving lunacy.
I prize my mental instability and nurture the lunacy which manifests itself within my cranium.
Boston's weirder early '80s contours, like the snaky lunacy of The Freeze, get limned as well.
When he is on the verge of lunacy and death, Hester proposes to him that they shall flee to Europe, and for a moment he dallies with the idea.
While these may seem like the basic rules in fine winemaking to you and me, they border on lunacy in the case-driven world of wine sales.

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