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amentia

[ ey-men-shuh, uh-men- ]

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. (no longer in technical use) intellectual disability.


amentia

/ əˈmɛnʃə /

noun

  1. severe mental deficiency, usually congenital Compare dementia
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Word History and Origins

Origin of amentia1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin, equivalent to āment- ( ament 2 ) + -ia noun suffix ( -ia )
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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.

Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.

Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.

Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense.

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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