'Derangement' definitions:
Definition of 'derangement'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of mental disturbance and disorientation [syn: derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalance]
noun
Definition of 'Derangement'
From: GCIDE
- Derangement \De*range"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]rangement.] The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
- Syn: Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; lunacy; madness; delirium; mania. See Insanity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'derangement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abnormity,
- alienation,
- amorphism,
- anomalism,
- anomalousness,
- anomaly,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- clouded mind,
- confusion,
- convulsion,
- craziness,
- daftness,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disproportion,
- disruption,
- distraction,
- disturbance,
- divergence,
- eccentricity,
- entropy,
- erraticism,
- folie,
- furor,
- haphazardness,
- heteromorphism,
- incoherence,
- indiscriminateness,
- inferiority,
- inharmonious harmony,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- irrationality,
- irregularity,
- 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,
- misarrangement,
- monstrosity,
- most admired disorder,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- oddness,
- perturbation,
- pixilation,
- possession,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- psychopathy,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- randomness,
- reasonlessness,
- senselessness,
- shattered mind,
- shuffling,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- strangeness,
- subnormality,
- superiority,
- teratism,
- turbulence,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unnaturalism,
- unnaturalness,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- upset,
- witlessness