English Explanatory Dictionary

unsane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Not sane, as:
Synonym of insane.
In a state of maladaptive mental functioning that is not insane (that is, not mentally ill, or at least not clinically so) but is also not sane under a definition whereby sanity is highly adaptive cognition.

Word forms

unsane more unsane most unsane

Etymology

From un- + sane.

Synonyms

insane nonsane

Related words

unsanity

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