sanity

noun
/ˈsæ.nə.ti/US/ˈsæn.əˌti/UK

Etymology

From Middle English sanite, sanyte, sanytee, from Middle French sanité, from Latin sānitās, from sānus (“healthy”) + -itās (“-ity”). By surface analysis, sane + -ity.

  1. derived from sānitās
  2. derived from sanité
  3. inherited from sanite

Definitions

  1. The condition of being sane.

    • preserve one's sanity
    • lose your sanity
    • decree someone's sanity
  2. Reasonable and rational behaviour.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sanity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA