sanity

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All the samee, {sic} I've had to assure him just fourteen times this morning that the ring, the license, the carriage, the minister's fee, and my sanity are all O. K.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being sane; soundness of mind.
  2. noun Soundness of judgment or reason.

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  • He worried for her sanity, and that someone would learn of this silliness and brand her a witch. —  MIDNIGHT MAGIC
  • Elric, conscious that he was in no physical dan- ger from the monster, yet also highly conscious that his sanity was about to be permanently impaired, turned and fled.
  • They are not mad, or rather, the loss of their sanity is the lesser of their problems. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
  • The reader is fain at last to seek the only relief possible from the sickening story, by flying to the conclusion that Jean Jacques Rousseau, with all his genius, was wanting in that mental sanity which is a condition of complete moral responsibility We shall, of course, not follow the "Confessions" through their disgusting recitals of sin and shame. —  Classic French Course in English
  • And while they were playing a game for our sanity, I played a game for our lives. —  Breaking Point
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English sanite, health, from Old French, from Latin sānitās, from sānus, healthy.

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  1. = French sanité, sanity, vernacularly santé, health, Old French sante, sanite, santeit, saniteit, health, = Spanish sanidad = Portuguese sanidade = Italian sanità, health, from Latin sanita(t-)s, soundness of body, health, also soundness of mind, reason, good sense, sanity, also correctness and propriety of speech, from sanus, sound, healthy, sane: see sane.
 

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