sanitysan‧i‧ty /ˈsænəti/ noun [uncountable] 
I began to doubt his sanity. She wondered if she was losing her sanity.2when someone or something is being reasonable and sensible: Sanity appears to be returning to the stock market.regain/get back/recover your sanity I took a vacation to try to recover my sanity.
WORD ORIGINsanity
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin sanitas ‘health, sanity’, from sanus; ➔ SANEEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I began to doubt Donald's sanity as his story got stranger and stranger.
- If you have your health and your sanity, money isn't really important.
- Let's hope sanity prevails on Capitol Hill and they vote against this bill.
- The pressures of his arrest and trial may have caused Garcia to lose his sanity.
- Although he was tempted to try and remain awake, he realised his sanity might be permanently impaired by that.
- Meanwhile, first-term Mayor Bill Campbell is struggling to preserve sanity and decorum as Atlanta prepares for the world spotlight.
- My urge to prove my sanity made me gabble, and my gabbling disproved my claim.
- Simone and André would restore her sense of sanity.
- Sometimes I wonder how that child survived; maybe her diary helped keep her sanity.
- Stabilisation based on fiscal balance and monetary control is thus the sinequanon of a return to economic sanity.
- The strategy brings a degree of sanity to the chaos of investing in hot, albeit volatile stocks.
- The trio seemed like an oasis of sanity in a desert of decibels, and their severe music was warmly received.
Longman Language Activatornot mentally ill
not mentally ill, so that you are able to make sensible decisions and lead your life in a normal way: · Of course he isn't mad. He's as sane as you or I.· No sane person would believe such garbage!perfectly sane (=completely sane): · To his neighbours, Peter appeared perfectly sane.
when you are mentally healthy: · If you have your health and your sanity, money isn't really important.· I began to doubt Donald's sanity as his story got stranger and stranger.
a legal expression meaning not mentally ill and able to be responsible for your decisions and actions: · You are allowed to vote only if you are over 18 and of sound mind.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She wondered if she was losing her sanity. I took a vacation to try to recover my sanity.
1the condition of being mentally healthy OPP insanity: She wondered if she was losing her sanity. I took a vacation to try to recover my sanity. I began to doubt his sanity. She wondered if she was losing her sanity.2when someone or something is being reasonable and sensible: Sanity appears to be returning to the stock market.regain/get back/recover your sanity I took a vacation to try to recover my sanity.