DERANGEMENT Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

derangement

noun

as in dementia

a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life given powerful drugs to treat his derangement

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as in disruption

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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Recent Examples of derangement The facts of his biography, no matter how outrageous, could not possibly explain the sheer derangement of his output. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 Occasionally, the threat of violence, often expressed through all-caps derangement. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026 Call this his civil-rights derangement syndrome. — Howard L. Simon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026 Age and bitterness appear to have compounded the narcissism and egomania to produce derangement. — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026 Now, after having been canceled and reborn, the show has lost its signature sense of derangement, and there’s something a little sad about that. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026 Boycotting the Arts to show you support the Arts is a form of derangement syndrome. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2025 President doubled down on criticism What is 'Trump derangement syndrome' about? — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025 The great derangement The Indian government has ignored numerous pleas to reconsider and abandon the project and instead moved to change the facts on the ground. — M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Other symptoms include mild dementia that involves short-term memory loss, a lack of interest in daily activities and difficulty completing routine tasks.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
As a final demonstration of this approach’s promise, the researchers designed zinc proteases that could target proteins associated with neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of dementia

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But then shipping disruptions, rising fuel costs, and steep international tariffs made exporting increasingly difficult, prompting Yu to turn her attention to building a domestic market.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Ukraine experienced several disruptions with its Starshield satellite network in recent history.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of disruption

Noun

That sentence would have sounded like insanity a few decades ago, but in the strange world of Hollywood in the 2020s, weirder might really be better.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2026
So this is just a build-up, and there is such insanity coming.

— Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of insanity

Noun

The vote, which is veto-proof, was met with praise by animal rights groups and park advocates who have long called for the ban citing several incidents where horses crashed or caused disturbances.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
There’s also a second disturbance several hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda that could develop through Friday while moving north-northeast, the hurricane center advisory said.

— Robin Webb, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of disturbance

Noun

The Beatles, not yet known in America, were already inspiring hysteria across England.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Unfortunately, Shakespeare never actually visited Venice; and scholars now recognise that Shylock’s character is more a reflection of anti-Jewish hysteria in early seventeenth-century London than anything that was going on in Italy at that time.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of hysteria

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But in situations of ongoing uncertainty—such as chronic food instability—the stress is far greater.

— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
During the experiment, the chip analyzed signals to predict the onset of sawtooth instabilities, which involve rapid changes in plasma conditions.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

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