Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dementia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dementia; loss of mental powers. See
insanity .
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- noun
Madness ;dementia .
Etymologies
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From Latin dēmentia, from dēmens ("out of one's mind").
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yarb commented on the word demency
...causing, and endorsing, panic, demency and execrable romanchiks.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 3, 2008