'Dementia' definitions:
Definition of 'dementia'
(from WordNet)
noun
Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin [syn: dementia, dementedness]
Definition of 'Dementia'
From: GCIDE
- Dementia \De*men"ti*a\, n. [L., fr. demens. See Dement.] Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dementia'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- alienation,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- clouded mind,
- craziness,
- daftness,
- dementedness,
- derangement,
- disorientation,
- distraction,
- folie,
- furor,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- irrationality,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- mania,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- oddness,
- pixilation,
- possession,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- reasonlessness,
- senselessness,
- shattered mind,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- strangeness,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- witlessness