dementia

dementia

noun

Definition of DEMENTIA

a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life <doctors were able to treat the patient's dementia with drugs and thus allow him to function on his own>

Synonyms aberration, dementia, derangement, lunacy, madness, mania, rage [archaic]

Related Words neurosis, psychosis; instability, irrationality, unreasonableness; delirium, frenzy, hysteria; hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia; senile dementia; delusion, hallucination; monomania, obsession, phobia; abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness

Near Antonyms lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness; normality, soundness

Antonyms mind, saneness, sanity