locura
English
Etymology
Spanish locura (“madness”)
Noun
locura (uncountable)
- A form of severe chronic psychosis encountered in Latin America.
Anagrams
- Lacour, ocular, rucola
Spanish
Etymology
From loco (“crazy”) + -ura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loˈkuɾa/ [loˈku.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: lo‧cu‧ra
Noun
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.
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- (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...
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- nuts, crazy, insane (translatable as an interjection)
- Eso es una locura! ― That's nuts!
- Es una locura! ― It's crazy!
Derived terms
- con locura
- Locura de Marzo
See also
- delirio
Further reading
- “locura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014