sanity
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| —n | |
| 1. | the state of being sane |
| 2. | good sense or soundness of judgment |
| [C15: from Latin sānitās health, from sānus healthy] | |
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Sanity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
sanity
early 15c., "healthy condition," from M.Fr. sanité "health," from L. sanitas "health, sanity," from sanus "healthy, sane." Meaning "soundness of mind" first attested c.1600.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
sanity san·i·ty (sān'ĭ-tē)
n.
The quality or condition of being sane; soundness of mind.
Soundness of judgment or reason.
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Example sentences
All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.
The charismatic, visionary leader who hangs onto his sanity seems to have extraordinary reproductive success even today.
Her message was that everyone involved in admissions needed to chill out for the sake of education, not to mention their sanity.
The road is long and the scenery boring, a combination that can have your kids pushing you to the limits of sanity.
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