ZANYISM Synonyms

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• strange and unconventional behavior

• (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis

• a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path

• a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations

• mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

• fill with a stuffing while cooking

• foolish or senseless behavior

• noisy and mischievous merrymaking

• great merriment

• relatively permanent disorder of the mind

• obsolete terms for legal insanity

• foolish or senseless behavior

• obsolete terms for legal insanity

• an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

• a feeling of intense anger

• the quality of being rash and foolish

• unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

• a message that seems to convey no meaning

• ornamental objects of no great value

• having no intelligible meaning

• a message whose content is at variance with reason

• a ludicrous folly

• an impulsive scatterbrained manner

• foolish or senseless behavior