English noun: dementia | |||
1. | dementia (state) mental deterioration of organic or functional origin | ||
Synonyms | dementedness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | insanity | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis, presenile dementia, senile dementia, senile psychosis | ||