Insanity vs. Agateophobia — What's the Difference?

Insanity, madness, and craziness are terms that describe a spectrum of individual and group behaviors that are characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can be manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people.

A fear of insanity.

Severe mental illness or derangement. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.

Unsoundness of mind sufficient to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or sufficient to warrant commitment to a mental health facility.

Incapacity to form the criminal intent necessary for legal responsibility, as when a mental disorder prevents a person from knowing the difference between right and wrong.

Incapacity because of a mental disorder to participate adequately as a defendant in criminal proceedings or to understand the imposition of a criminal punishment, particularly the death penalty.

Extreme foolishness or irrationality

Something that is extremely foolish, distinctly irrational, or wildly excited

The state of being insane; madness.

The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Relatively permanent disorder of the mind