How is the word folie translated from French to English

English translation
madness
noun

Comportement très déraisonnable, ou maladie mentale.

Very foolish behaviour, or mental illness.

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  • Conduire par cette tempête serait de la folie. — Driving in this storm would be madness.

  • Avant les fêtes, le magasin était une vraie folie. — Before the holidays the shop was pure madness.

  • Il y a une sorte de folie dans sa façon de collectionner les vieilles radios. — There's a kind of madness in the way he collects old radios.

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