Dementia

English

Noun

Dementia (usually uncountable; plural Dementias)

1. (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.
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

progressive decline in cognitive function

Bulgarian: слабоумие (bg) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 痴呆 (cmn) (chīdāi) Czech: demence (cs) f. Danish: demens (da) Esperanto: demenco (eo) Finnish: dementia (fi) French: démence (fr) f. German: Demenz (de) f.

Greek: άνοια (el) (ánoia) f. Hungarian: elbutulás (hu) Lithuanian: silpnaprotystė (lt) f. Persian: زوال عقل (fa) (zavâl-e 'aql) Polish: demencja (pl) f. Spanish: demencia (es) f. Swedish: demens (sv) c. Turkish: demans (tr)

madness or insanity

Bulgarian: слабоумие (bg) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 瘋病 (cmn), 疯病 (cmn) (fēngbìng) Esperanto: demenco (eo) French: démence (fr) f.

Greek: άνοια (el) (ánoia) f. Hungarian: ostobaság (hu) Lithuanian: demencija (lt) f. Spanish: demencia (es) f., locura (es) f.

See also

• amentia
• Alzheimer's disease
• delirium

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Finnish

Noun

Dementia

1. dementia

Declension

Declension of Dementia (type kulkija) singular plural nominative Dementia dementiat genitive dementian dementioiden dementioitten dementiain1 partitive dementiaa dementioita accusative Dementia dementian dementiat inessive dementiassa dementioissa elative dementiasta dementioista illative dementiaan dementioihin adessive dementialla dementioilla ablative dementialta dementioilta allative dementialle dementioille essive dementiana dementioina translative dementiaksi dementioiksi instructive – dementioin abessive dementiatta dementioitta comitative – dementioineen 1) Rare.

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Latin

Noun

dēmentia (genitive dēmentiae); f, first declension

1. madness, insanity

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	dēmentia	dēmentiae
genitive	dēmentiae	dēmentiārum
dative	dēmentiae	dēmentiīs
accusative	dēmentiam	dēmentiās
ablative	dēmentiā	dēmentiīs
vocative	dēmentia	dēmentiae

Adjective

dēmentia

1. nominative neuter plural of dēmēns
2. accusative neuter plural of dēmēns
3. vocative neuter plural of dēmēns