as in sanity
the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities
a woman of remarkable saneness, considering the fact that she had just spent a rainy week in a cabin with four kids
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Noun
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In Hinckley's case, prosecutors had to prove sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.—
Katrina Kaufman,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026 -
In Joseph Heller’s novel, claiming to be crazy is taken as evidence of sanity.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Carly loves playing hostess, and designs interiors above all with socializing in mind—the conversation pit is one of her favorite midcentury tropes.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Andrillon warned against trying to harness the sleeping mind in the service of the waking world.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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“Saneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saneness. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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