Dementia

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) madness or insanity

Derived terms

 * demented
 * demential
 * senile dementia

Thesaurus
aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, daftness, dementedness, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, 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, oddness, pixilation, possession, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

Translations

 * Bulgarian: слабоумие
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 * Persian: زوال عقل
 * Polish: demencja
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 * Turkish: demans


 * Bulgarian: слабоумие
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 * Mandarin: 瘋病, 疯病
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 * Greek:
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Noun

 * 1) dementia

Noun

 * 1) madness, insanity