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derangement

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of derangement

1 a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life

given powerful drugs to treat his derangement

Synonyms of derangement

aberration, dementia, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rage [archaic]

Words Related to derangement

neurosis, psychosis

instability, irrationality, unreasonableness

delirium, frenzy, hysteria

hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia

senile dementia

delusion, hallucination

monomania, obsession, phobia

abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness

Near Antonyms of derangement

lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness

normality, soundness

Antonyms of derangement

mind, saneness, sanity

2 an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed

the derangement of the carefully organized event by a single freak accident

Synonyms of derangement

dislocation, disruption, disturbance, upset

Words Related to derangement

convulsion, revolution, unsettledness, unsettlement, upheaval

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