Dementia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
  • n. Madness; insanity. See Synonyms at insanity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. madness or insanity
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An extremely low condition of the mental function; profound general mental incapacity.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
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    insanity   
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    insanity    madness    idiocy   
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