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Behavior so chaotic or irrational it seems to defy reason or order.
means Behavior or a state of mind that's wildly irrational, chaotic, or unhinged — too disordered to count as sane.
from Traces back to 'crazed,' from Middle English 'crasen' meaning to break or shatter — originally used of cracked glass, pottery, or ice before it got pulled over to describe a mind that's similarly fractured. The suffix '-y' turned the adjective 'crazy' into a quality, and '-ness' bottled that quality up into a noun. So underneath the modern chaos, the word is still quietly about things that have cracked.
- origin
- from crazed, meaning cracked like old pottery
- legal use
- different from insanity, which is a courtroom word
- social twist
- often a compliment when applied to parties, not people
- sister word
- madness sounds British, craziness sounds like it owns a skateboard