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Definition of Rabidness
1. Noun. Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm. "Poetry is a sort of divine madness"
Generic synonyms: Ebullience, Enthusiasm, Exuberance
Derivative terms: Mad, Rabid, Rabid
Definition of Rabidness
1. n. The quality or state of being rabid.
Definition of Rabidness
1. Noun. The property of being rabid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rabidness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabidness
Literary usage of Rabidness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1892)
"The traveler in both cases finds the religion to be a mere superstition and frenzy
or rabidness. Examined a hornets' nest suspended from contiguous ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1892)
"... finds the Religion to be a mere superstition and frenzy or rabidness. Examined a
hornets' nest suspended from contiguous huckleberry bushes. ..."
3. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1900)
"It is chiefly interesting for its fierce anti-papal feeling, inflamed to rabidness
by the horrors of S. Bartholomew. Yet, even from this point of view, ..."
4. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"It is chiefly interesting for its fierce anti-Papal feeling, inflamed to rabidness
by the horrors of S. Bartholomew. Yet, even from this point of view, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"This is the rabidness of a curiosity that deserves the cat-o'-nine-tails. If ever
there was a murder, merciless, coldblooded, and brutal, ..."
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