insanitas

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

insānĭtas, ātis, f. [insanus],

unsoundness , unhealthiness , disease : nomen insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum, id est insanitatem et aegrotum animum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 4, 8: sapientia sanitas sit animi, insipientia autem quasi insanitas quaedam, id. ib. 3, 5, 10; cf. Varr. ap. Non. 122, 28.

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