Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lunacy

Lunacy , noun

[See Lunatic.]

1.
Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. — Brande
Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. — Shakespeare
2.
A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. — Dr. H. More