Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being demented.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
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- noun The quality of being
demented .
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- noun mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
Etymologies
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Examples
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"No telling what profanity or dementedness we're saying in coyote" agreed Myra.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007
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I went to the LOLBuilder at I Can Has Cheezburger and went through the torrent of photos being submitted, captioning as dementedness and snark came to me.
LOLMAGGIES Maggie Jochild 2005
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I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan.
Archive 2006-04-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan.
Past masters III Alistair Myles 2006
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I like the universities in fantasy novels by Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett and so on, they are basically EXACTLY like real-world universities only their dementedness is revealed.
Archive 2005-07-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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I like the universities in fantasy novels by Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett and so on, they are basically EXACTLY like real-world universities only their dementedness is revealed.
They see dead people Jenny Davidson 2005
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From the first it appeared obvious to all that the dementedness which characterised the little wizened yellow-faced woman was of a much more pronounced type than Con the Quare One's.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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Mallard had got the vertigo, he reported the gambler's launch on dementedness to the earl.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Rosamund utter dementedness, considering this woman's position, and
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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It's a delusion amounting to dementedness to suppose, that with the people inside our defences, we can be taming them and tricking them.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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