derangement
derangement
nounDefinition of DERANGEMENT
1
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life <given powerful drugs to treat his derangement>
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
2
an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed <the derangement of the carefully organized event by a single freak accident>
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