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locura

/loˈkuɾa/, [loˈku.ɾa]

craziness, madness

Noun locura f (plural locuras)

  1. (uncountable) madness, craziness
  2. (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)
  3. nuts, crazy, insane (translatable as an interjection)
    Eso es una locura!
    That's nuts!
    Es una locura!
    It's crazy!

Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Examples

  • Ella quiere con locura a su hijo.

    She loves her son dearly.

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  • El amor es una locura que sólo la cura el cura, y cuando el cura la cura comete una gran locura.

    Love is a madness that only the priest heals, and when the priest heals it, he commits a great folly.

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  • ¿En el arcoíris quién puede trazar la línea en la que el matiz violeta termina y comienza el naranja? Vemos con claridad la diferencia de los colores, pero ¿exactamente dónde empieza el uno a mezclarse con el otro? Lo mismo ocurre con la cordura y la locura.

    Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

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  • Al delirio de una persona se le dice locura, al delirio de miles se le llama religión.

    Delirium of one person is called madness. Delirium of thousands of people is called religion.

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  • Es una locura.

    That's crazy.

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  • Yo no sufro de locura, ¡la disfruto!

    I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy it!

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  • El amor es una locura transitoria curable por el matrimonio o por la eliminación de la paciente de las influencias bajo las cuales hubiere incurrido el trastorno.

    Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

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  • Eso es una completa locura.

    That's totally crazy.

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  • Mirando fijo hacia el manchado espejo, él no estaba seguro de si su aflicción era soledad o era locura.

    Staring in the smudged mirror, he was not certain if his affliction was loneliness or madness.

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  • La locura aún está por comenzar.

    The madness has yet to begin.

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