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View synonyms for sanity

sanity

[ san-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
  2. soundness of judgment.

    Synonyms: reasonableness, sensibleness, rationality, reason



sanity

/ ˈsænɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state of being sane
  2. good sense or soundness of judgment


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Other Words From

  • non·sani·ty noun
  • super·sani·ty noun
  • un·sani·ty noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sanity1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English sanite, from Latin sānitās; equivalent to sane + -ity

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sanity1

C15: from Latin sānitās health, from sānus healthy

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Example Sentences

We did take the time to just drive around town each day, breaking free of cabin fever and trying to keep our sanity.

With real life scares like tanned-ghouls and Boogaloos Bois threatening the sanctity of your sanity — this bop is still great whenever you’re looking to escape the stressors that threaten your sunny days.

Less cautionary tales than desperate pleas for sanity, “Subsequent Moviefilm” and “American Selfie” join a slew of narrative features and documentaries designed to move the needle during election season.

I witness their reckoning with mortality, with the fragility of health and sanity.

The onset of this pandemic has put a strain on the sanity of many people forced to isolate themselves from friends and family.

You still have to take care of your sanity, your piece of mind.

His sanity is slowly unraveling, like the claustrophobic narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart.

But in the long-term, Democrats must do something to pull the debate back toward the center; toward basic rational sanity.

What is in dispute is the sanity of the judge who sentenced Boardman's husband to only eight years of house arrest.

For my own sanity—as morally discomfiting as it is—I'm planning to play along.

It was an acid test of his sanity and he knew as he worked that his reasoning faculties at least had suffered no impairment.

It was in her hour of sanity and insight that she had said virginity was the law, the indispensable condition.

How destructive to common sense and sanity and everything that kept life running on reasonable lines.

She sang the praises of Athenian literature and art and life; there was sanity and clarity, there was balance and serenity!

During these three months there were moments when he felt himself perilously close to the borders of his sanity.

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