unsane
adjEtymology From un- + sane.
› Not sane, as:
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Usually Synonym of insane.
- If only he didn’t feel so tired, so sick of everything, his father, this unsane country.2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), page 253:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Semantics Especially, General In a state of maladaptive mental functioning that is not insane (that is, not mentally ill, or at least not clinically so) but is also not sane under a definition whereby sanity is highly adaptive cognition.
- One of the hallmarks of maturity and personal adjustment, and an important difference between the highly sane person and the unsane person, is simply the conscious acceptance of responsibility for one's life.2009, Karl Albrecht, Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills, page 117:
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