sanities

States of rationality

Sanities is the plural of sanity—the state of having a sound, rational mind.

While sanity itself rarely takes a plural, sanities appears when distinguishing types or instances: different cultures have different sanities, the competing sanities of law and art.

The word suggests that what counts as reasonable thinking varies by context or perspective.

rationality

reason

Basis or justification

clarity · soundness · judgment · discernment · sense · wisdom · cognition · intellect · prudence · objectivity

normalcy

stability

Resistance to displacement

routine · ordinariness · baseline · regularity · predictability · functionality · adjustment · coping · adaptation · homeostasis

mental-health

therapy

Curative mental treatment

diagnosis · treatment · recovery · medication · wellness · stability · functioning · assessment · evaluation · intervention

Opposites
mental soundness

sanitiesinsanities

Severe mental unsoundness

madnesses · lunacies · craziness · derangements · psychoses

reasonableness/sensibility

sanitiesabsurdities

Utterly senseless notions

follies · irrationalities · nonsenses · idiocies · stupidities

reasonableness of thought/action

sanitiesinsanities

Severe mental unsoundness

follies · absurdities · irrationalities · unreasonableness · foolishness

Family

insane, sane, sanity, insanity, insanely, saneness, saner, sanest, insaneness

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