dementia

Noun

Meaning

Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

senility dementedness senile dementia derangement aphasia mania neurosis instability rage madness aberration insanity alienation psychosis paranoia
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Antonyms

speech sanity talking verbosity saneness loquacity
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Hypernyms

insanity

Hyponyms

senile dementia alcohol amnestic disorder alcoholic dementia Korsakov's psychosis Korsakov's syndrome polyneuritic psychosis

Phrases with the word

parkinsonism-dementia complex frontotemporal dementia steroid dementia disease that leads to dementia dementia a potu early dementia

Anagrams

Dimetane Demetian Mendaite Mendieta Tiedeman

Examples

The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective. David Perlmutter

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level. Carey Mulligan

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer. David Perlmutter

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life. Kevin Whately

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Richard Eyre

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' Simon Callow

Close letter words and terms

demented life dementedly dementedness dementia a potu dementia dialytica dementia paralytica