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sanity Definition

san·ity (san′ə tē)

noun

  1. the condition of being sane; soundness of mind; mental health
  2. soundness of judgment

Etymology: ME sanite < OFr < L sanitas, health

sanity Synonyms

sanity

n.

  1. Freedom from mental disease

    sound mind, rationality, healthy mind, mens sana (Latin), saneness, a clear mind, clearmindedness, wholesome outlook.

  2. Good sense

    common sense, intelligence, reason, reasonableness, prudence, good judgment, sagacity, acumen, understanding, comprehension.

sanity Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • restore: Trundle restored sanity with a superb curling shot into the corner of the net in stoppage time.
  • preserve: Input file: In most cases there can be text at the end of the line to preserve sanity.
  • retain: Text at the end of each line to identify the interaction is to retain sanity.
  • bring: Blair brought sanity to the Bush actions over Iraq.
  • question: Question the sanity an honor for on the web.
  • have: Let's have a little sanity in the world.

Adjective modifier

  • own: To preserve her own sanity, she must learn to trust a man with a secret of his own.
  • little: There is little sanity to compare the madness against.
  • relative: By 9am I'm in the relative sanity of the design studio.
  • ecological: This is not to say that the path to ecological sanity is to be found via education alone.
  • complete: The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious was his conduct.

Modifies a noun

  • checking: Lack of sanity checking on a new billing system springs to mind.
  • sake: Mike's bedroom door has been kept closed for sanity sake and Mike didn't see a reason to change the status quo.
  • check: There has always been a sanity check of the programs output.
  • meter: The trouble is, losing the social game brings your sanity meter right down.
  • saver: This site is a sanity saver - you definitely found the right place!

Possessives

  • sake: For your sanity's sake, please get back to work right now!

Preposition: in

  • world: Let's have a little sanity in the world.

Preposition: of

  • people: You really do have to wonder about the sanity of some people.
sanity Quotes

Some of us will fight and fight again to save the party we love.We will fight and fight againtobring back sanityand honestyand dignity, so that our party, with its great past, may retain its glory and its greatness.

—Gaitskell, Hugh

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.

—McNamara, Robert Strange

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game† In a world haunted by thehydrogenand napalm bomb, thefootball field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

—Rous, Sir Stanley

Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.

—Bellow, Saul

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

—Small, AlbionW

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

—Melville, Herman

There ain't no Sanity Claus.

—Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx