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lunacy
English
Etymology
From lunatic +? -cy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?lu?.n?.si /, /?lju?.n?.si/
- (US) IPA(key): /?lu?.n?.si /
Noun
lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)
- (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
- a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
- insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
- Something deeply misguided.
Synonyms
- (state of being mad): insanity, madness, craziness, craze
Translations
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dementia
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dementia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??m?n??/
Noun
dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias)
- (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- Madness or insanity.
Derived terms
- demented
- demential
- senile dementia
Translations
See also
- amentia
- Alzheimer's disease
- delirium
Anagrams
- Demetian, Mendaite, Mendieta, Tiedeman, matineed
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dementia.
Noun
dementia
- dementia
Declension
Latin
Etymology
dement- +? -ia
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de??men.ti.a/, [d?e??m?n?t?iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de?men.t?si.a/, [d???m?nt??s?i?]
Noun
d?mentia f (genitive d?mentiae); first declension
- madness, insanity
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Adjective
d?mentia
- nominative neuter plural of d?m?ns
- accusative neuter plural of d?m?ns
- vocative neuter plural of d?m?ns
References
- dementia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dementia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- dementia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dementia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
dementia From the web:
- what dementia feels like
- what dementia looks like
- what dementia causes
- what dementia causes hallucinations
- what dementia is like
- what dementia makes you aggressive
- what dementia is hereditary
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