Dementia
[dɪ'menʃə] or [dɪ'mɛnʃə]
Definition
(noun.) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
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Definition
(n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [L.] (Med.) Idiocy, insanity, loss of intellect.
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Definition
n. general mental enfeeblement with loss of memory reason feeling and will: often the consequence of acute mania.
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