locura
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish locura (“madness”).
Noun
[edit]locura (uncountable)
- Culture-bound syndrome
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]locura f (plural locuras)
- (uncountable) madness, craziness
- 2014, Elmer F. Hernández, Eres único e imprescindible, Palibrio, →ISBN:
- La pasión es como una locura absoluta en la que sentimos un deseo intenso, que no nos deja ver nada, no podemos pensar en nada, y hasta perdemos el apetito.
- Passion is like an absolute madness where we feel an intense desire that doesn't let us see anything or think about anything, and we even lose our appetite.
- (countable) an act of madness (i.e., an act based on a lack of judgement or reasoning; an act causing surprise due to its anomalous nature)
- 2014, Claudia Velasco, Alrededor de tu piel, Harlequin, una división de HarperCollins Ibérica, →ISBN:
- La gente los acosaba, los emborracharon, fue una locura, pero no se acostaron con nadie...
- People harassed them, got them drunk, it was crazy, but they didn't sleep with anyone...
- nuts, crazy, insane (translatable as an interjection)
- Eso es una locura! ― That's nuts!
- Es una locura! ― It's crazy!
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “locura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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