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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
  2. n. Madness; insanity. See Synonyms at insanity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An extremely low condition of the mental function; profound general mental incapacity. It may be congenital (idiocy) or acquired. Acquired dementia may be a primary insanity, or it may form the final stage of mania or melancholia.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
  2. n. madness or insanity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. mental deterioration of organic or functional origin

Etymologies

  1. Latin dēmentia, madness, from dēmēns, dēment-, senseless; see dement. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

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  1. insanity
  1. madness
  1. idiocy

hypernyms (1)

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  1. insanity

hyponyms (10)

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  1. korsakov's syndrome
  2. senile dementia
  1. polyneuritic psychosis
  2. alcohol amnestic disorder
  1. korsakov's psychosis
  2. senile psychosis
  1. presenile dementia
  2. korsakoff's psychosis
  1. Korsakoff's syndrome
  2. alcoholic dementia

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. psychosis
  2. schizophrenia
  3. epilepsy
  4. impairment
  5. aphasia
  1. insanity
  2. paranoia
  3. autism
  4. alcoholism
  5. dysfunction
  1. deafness
  2. debility
  3. paralysis
  4. apnea
  5. sclerosis
  1. hysteria
  2. hypothermia
  3. diabetes
  4. edema
  5. mania
  1. seizure
  2. coma
  3. obesity
  4. arthritis
  5. dehydration

reverse dictionary (31)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. alzheimer's
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. alzheimers
  4. Pick's disease
  5. polyneuritic psychosis
  6. presenile dementia
  1. senile dementia
  2. senile psychosis
  3. korsakoff's psychosis
  4. Korsakoff's syndrome
  5. korsakov's psychosis
  6. korsakov's syndrome
  1. alcohol amnestic disorder
  2. alcoholic dementia
  3. demency
  4. dement
  5. demented
  6. fatuity
  1. helleborize
  2. organic brain syndrome
  3. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
  4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  5. general paresis
  6. comercially
  1. spielmeyer-vogt disease
  2. Huntington's chorea
  3. Huntington's disease
  4. Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
  5. juvenile amaurotic idiocy
  6. cjd
  1. creutzfeldt-jakob disease

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  • Louises "If we ask Sheila then we can't ask Ron. If I have kippers now then it's quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia's the sane realisation you just can't be doing with all that any more". "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan Feb 25, 2012

  • Kristianto2010 His father had developed dementia and began to lose memories of even his family. May 8, 2011

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