2007-01-05 06:03:03 · 15 answers · asked by Meeowf 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
please, no dictionary terms....i want YOUR definition
2007-01-05 06:09:36 · update #1
Well , a lunatic could be many things . For an example , a lunatic could possibly be a man / woman who was driven insain
by peer-presier or maby even stress . When said person goes insain , he / she may be a threat to the sociaty and peers around
said lunatic . So , by sociaty's point of view , the man / woman is
concidered a lunati .
But , you can also define lunatic in many other ways . For example , a lunatic could just be a man / woman bent on some obsession and will maby even KILL for the beloved item he / she
loves (perhaps gold , Money , or matireal possetions ) or even kill herself / himself to get a larger sum of a presius item
( Rubys , Saphires and maby even Jades ) , hence we return back to deffenition one .
So , thats my deffenition , I hope you got the answer !
2007-01-05 07:04:00 · answer #1 · answered by cyborgman47 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An honest to goodness lunatic probably is running his life style with the phases of the moon. He is at his looniest when the moon is the fullest. Just listen to the police scanner and then stick your head out the door and look up at the sky. Better yet, take an ailing grandchild to the emergency room and watch the parade of loons come in as the moon comes out when it is a full one! They probably can not help it.
I just take the remote, video games ,and sugar food away from my loon (ha!) until the moon shrinks back down!
2007-01-05 06:46:38 · answer #2 · answered by Lyric Lady 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lunatic (colloquially: "loony") is commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, a condition once called lunacy.
The word is borrowed via French from Latin "lunaticus", which gains its stem from "luna" for moon, which denotes the traditional link made in folklore between madness and the phases of the moon. This probably refers to the symptoms of cyclic mood disorders such as bipolar disorder or cyclothymia, the symptoms of which may also go through phases. As yet there is little evidence for any causal link between phases of the moon and the progression of mood disorder symptoms.
In Russian, a lunatic refers to a sleepwalker, literally "one who walks under the moon" or "moonwalker".
2007-01-05 06:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by cookiesandcorn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was actually a term given to people effected by the ful moon. In today's world we call any person who's not the norm to our society a Lunatic.
2007-01-05 06:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lunatic means someone who is crazy. The actually word lunatic used to refer to people who would loose it specifically on full moons. (Not kidding)
2007-01-05 06:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lunatic (colloquially: "loony") is commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, a condition once called lunacy.
2007-01-05 06:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lunatic is commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or just A GREAT SPIRIT!
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2007-01-05 06:15:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nancy Pelosi is the poster child for lunatics....
2007-01-05 06:55:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Persistent, fixed thoughts drive you to act in such a way that people around you just know you are in fact a loon-
2007-01-05 06:14:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a lunatic is an otherwise "normal" person who has no idea that they are completely insane.
2007-01-05 06:57:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋