insanity, foremost legal mind, counterweight

 Verizon, fed up with the high costs of offering the iPhone, plans to push smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows software, as a counterweight to the popular Apple device.

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insanity

(ĭn-săn'ĭ-tē)
n., pl., -ties.

1. Mental illness or derangement. No longer in scientific use.
2. Law.
   1. Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility.
   2. In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act committed.
3. 1. Extreme foolishness; folly.
   2. Something that is extremely foolish.

SYNONYMS insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, dementia. These nouns denote conditions of serious mental disability. Insanity is a grave, often prolonged condition that prevents a person from being held legally responsible for his or her actions: was judged not guilty for reasons of insanity. Lunacy often denotes derangement relieved intermittently by periods of clear-mindedness: yelled wildly in a moment of utter lunacy. Madness often stresses the violent aspect of mental illness: a story about obsession and madness. Mania refers principally to the excited, or manic, phase of bipolar disorder: prescribed drugs to control the patient's periods of mania. Dementia implies mental deterioration brought on by an organic brain disorder: underwent progressive stages of dementia.

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1 精神障害［錯乱］, 狂気.

2 愚かさ；むてっぽう

the insanity of war
戦争という狂気の沙汰(さた).

THE foremost legal mind in USA
Nomination of Kagan Leaves Some Longing on the Left
By PETER BAKER
Like other Democratic nominees since the 1960s, Elena Kagan does not fit the profile sought by the left, which hungers for a liberal counterweight to Justice Antonin Scalia.


mind

n.

1. The human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.
2. The collective conscious and unconscious processes in a sentient organism that direct and influence mental and physical behavior.
3. The principle of intelligence; the spirit of consciousness regarded as an aspect of reality.
4. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and applying knowledge: Follow your mind, not your heart.
5. A person of great mental ability: the great minds of the century.
6. 1. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection: I'll bear the problem in mind.
   2. A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities: the medical mind; the public mind.
   3. The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup: the criminal mind.
7. Opinion or sentiment: He changed his mind when he heard all the facts.
8. Desire or inclination: She had a mind to spend her vacation in the desert.
9. Focus of thought; attention: I can't keep my mind on work.
10. A healthy mental state; sanity: losing one's mind.

fore·most (fôr'mōst', fōr'-)
adj.

1. First in time or place.
2. Ahead of all others, especially in position or rank; paramount. See synonyms at chief.

adv.

1. In the front or first position.
2. So as to be most important.

[Alteration of Middle English formest, first, from Old English.]

cóunterwèight[cóunter・wèight]

[名]平衡錘, 釣り合いおもり.