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DEMENTEDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
Synonyms:
dementedness; dementia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("dementedness" is a kind of...):
insanity (relatively permanent disorder of the mind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dementedness"):
alcohol amnestic disorder; alcoholic dementia; Korsakoff's psychosis; Korsakoff's syndrome; Korsakov's psychosis; Korsakov's syndrome; polyneuritic psychosis (dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact)
presenile dementia (dementia with onset before the age of 65)
senile dementia; senile psychosis (dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease)
Derivation:
demented (affected with madness or insanity)
