sanity

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Mental soundness

Nouns — sanity, saneness, soundness, reason; rationality, normality, sobriety; lucidity; senses, sound mind, mens sana [in corpore sano]. See intellect.

Verbs — be sane, keep one's senses or reason, have it all together; come to one's senses, sober up; bring to one's senses. Slang, have all one's marbles or buttons.

Adjectives — sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; self-possessed; sober, in one's right mind; in possession of one's faculties. Informal, all there or here, hitting on all cylinders.

Adverbs — sanely, reasonably, etc.; in reason, within reason.

Quotations — Sanity is very rare (Emerson), Sanity is madness put to good uses (George Santayana), Sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master (Wilfrid Sheed).

Antonyms, see insanity.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Freedom from mental disease]

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

2. [Good sense]

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

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

saneness, sound mind, rightmindedness, mental stability, mental health, *all one's marbles, rationality, sense, levelheadedness, good judgment, lucidity, *both oars in the water.

ANT.: insanity, psychosis, craziness, instability

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A healthy mental state: lucidity, lucidness, mind, reason, saneness, sense (often used in plural), soundness, wit (used in plural). Slang: marble (used in plural). See SANE.