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dementia
  1. (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. Madness or insanity.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. derangement, insanity, madness, lunacy, aberration, mania, rage, Alzheimer's, unbalance, mental illness, Alzheimer's disease, mental decay, mental deterioration, mental disorder, personality change, senile dementia, softening of the brain, cognitive decline, brain disorder, delirium, craziness, psychosis, dementedness, hysteria, frenzy, insaneness, neurosis, psychopathy, instability, irrationality, deliration, distraction, delusion, phobia, hallucination, unsoundness of mind, deliriousness, schizophrenia, dotage, brainsickness, unreasonableness, disturbance, inanity, mental unbalance, loss of reason, mental derangement, senselessness, wildness, raving, violence … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Diminished alertness from these drugs in elderly patients may be confused with senility or dementia.”
      “It can be difficult to distinguish akathisia from the agitation that is often present in patients with dementia.”
      “This will become increasingly important as better treatments are developed for dementia and Parkinsonism.”
dement
  1. An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia
  2. Synonyms:
      3. nut, nutcase, nutter, lunatic, eccentric, fruitcake, weirdo, oddball, crank, crackbrain, loony, maniac, screwball, kook, crackpot, wacko, oddity, crazy, loon, character, psychopath, flake, psycho, sicko, zany, original, whacko, crack, codger, sickie, bug, quiz, cuckoo, madman, weirdie, madwoman, nutjob, wack, wackadoo, wackadoodle, headbanger, radge, nutso, schizo, meshuggener, bedlamite, harebrain, head case, odd bod, wing nut … more
demency
  1. (now rare) Madness; dementia.
dementedness
  1. The quality of being demented.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. madness, insanity, lunacy, derangement, mania, dementia, psychosis, craziness, hysteria, delirium, psychopathy, aberration, neurosis, insaneness, instability, frenzy, phobia, distraction, delusion, rage, schizophrenia, depression, deliration, dingbats, meshugaas, cynanthropy, hydrophobia, lycanthropy, zoanthropy, mental illness, mental disorder, mental unbalance, moon-madness, unsoundness of mind, deliriousness, hallucination, loss of reason, dotage, unbalance, raving, violence, wildness, crazedness, disorder, mental instability, illusion, recklessness, unreasonableness, mental derangement, irrationality … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But, when we do feel a slight bit dazed, it seems as though this dementedness is part of the film's charm.”
      “Your name will become synonymous with sheer dementedness, as lesser men whisper your name in terror.”
      “And in some defense of my dementedness I did draw on combination of art found here and there.”
dementias
  1. plural of dementia
  2. Synonyms:
      3. derangements, insanities, madnesses, lunacies, aberrations, manias, rages, Alzheimer's, mental illnesses, Alzheimer's disease, mental disorders, deliria, crazinesses, dementedness, psychoses, frenzies, insaneness, neuroses, psychopathies, irrationalities, instabilities, distractions, delirations, delusions, hallucinations, phobias, deliriousness, schizophrenias, dotages, brainsickness, unreasonablenesses, disturbances, inanities, calentures, incoherences, senselessnesses, psychoneuroses, disorientations, confusions, wildnesses, ravings, violences, crazedness, neuroticisms, disorders, illusions, recklessnesses, toxicities, personality disorders, depressions … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.”
      “At present, pounds 32m in government funding is given to help find ways of preventing or curing Alzheimer's and other dementias.”
      “People who take statin drugs to lower their cholesterol have a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, say two new studies.”
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