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sanity

[ san-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
soundness of judgment.
Synonyms: reasonableness, sensibleness, rationality, reason

sanity

/ ˈsænɪtɪ /

Origin of sanity¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English sanite, from Latin sānitās; equivalent to sane + -ity

Origin of sanity¹

C15: from Latin sānitās health, from sānus healthy

You still have to take care of your sanity, your piece of mind.

His sanity is slowly unraveling, like the claustrophobic narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart.

But in the long-term, Democrats must do something to pull the debate back toward the center; toward basic rational sanity.

What is in dispute is the sanity of the judge who sentenced Boardman's husband to only eight years of house arrest.

For my own sanity—as morally discomfiting as it is—I'm planning to play along.

It was an acid test of his sanity and he knew as he worked that his reasoning faculties at least had suffered no impairment.

It was in her hour of sanity and insight that she had said virginity was the law, the indispensable condition.

How destructive to common sense and sanity and everything that kept life running on reasonable lines.

She sang the praises of Athenian literature and art and life; there was sanity and clarity, there was balance and serenity!

During these three months there were moments when he felt himself perilously close to the borders of his sanity.

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