derangement

noun

1
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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2
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 There is no national mood, just a mélange of anomie, distaste, and derangement. — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 5 July 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for derangement
  1. dementia
  2. disruption
  3. insanity
  4. disturbance
  5. hysteria
  6. madness
  7. schizophrenia
  8. instability
Noun
  • Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases, can progress through three main stages.
    — Richard Sima, Washington Post, 21 July 2026
  • Butter and Margarine Findings presented at Nutrition 2023 showed that people who consumed more than half a tablespoon of olive oil a day had a 28% lower risk of dying from dementia than peers who rarely used it.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
Definition of dementia
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  • Equity gaps remain Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UC system is on track to meet these goals in 2030.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
  • The previous disruptions to shipping between 2023 and 2025 probably cost some $20 billion a year, according to industry estimates.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Definition of disruption
Noun
  • Colt did not have any signs of insanity, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, Richards said.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • This case involved a client who, after years of competency litigation, was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state forensic hospital.
    — Schnelle Tonge, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2026
Definition of insanity
Noun
  • Cherry residents say developers and city leaders must do a better job protecting neighborhoods from preventable disturbances during big projects.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
  • By contrast, ecological systems are complexly interconnected, meaning that when one element is disturbed, all the other components linked to it are affected, too, spreading the disturbance throughout the system.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
Definition of disturbance
Noun
  • Elon Musk continues to rage over Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which defied online hysteria from the right and broke box office records in its first days in theaters.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2026
  • The hysteria often comes with a fat dollop of Trumpian imperiousness, not requesting your engagement so much as demanding it.
    — Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Definition of hysteria
Noun
  • Their win was a victory for method over the madness that always threatened to be Argentina’s undoing.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Only readers can stop this madness, by turning their attention elsewhere.
    — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of madness
Noun
  • Dominguez, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the stabbing deaths of David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
  • Mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia may alter mood or perception.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of schizophrenia
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  • Stapp's answer to that instability is to stop building around policy at all.
    — Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Some state officials criticized the move as adding unneeded instability and uncertainty to running elections.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of instability

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