English▸ noun
(plural madwomen)
a woman who is extremely foolish, irrational, or reckless: people portrayed her as some kind of madwoman for saying things that we now all know are true.
▪ sometimes offensive a woman showing symptoms of a serious mental health condition:
she ingeniously brings to life one of fiction's most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Jane Eyre.
▪ used in similes to refer to a woman who does something very fast, intensely, or violently:
she'd driven my father's convertible like a madwoman.