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View synonyms for amentia
amentia
[ ey-men-shuh, uh-men- ]
amentia
/ əˈmɛnʃə /
noun
- severe mental deficiency, usually congenital Compare dementia
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of amentia1
C14: from Latin: insanity, from āmēns mad, from mēns mind
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Example Sentences
The former are labouring under dementia, not amentia.
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Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.
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Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
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Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense.
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In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life.
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