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demency

demency noun: madness; dementia.

Noun

demency (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Madness; dementia.
    • no direct access could be obtained to the banned, or burned, books of the three cosmologists, Xertigny, Yates and Zotov (pen names), who had recklessly started the whole business half a century earlier, causing, and endorsing, panic, demency and execrable romanchiks.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 263

Origin of demency

From Latin dēmentia, from dēmens (“out of one's mind”).

Questions about demency

What does demency mean?
Demency means madness; dementia.
What part of speech is demency?
Demency is a noun.

Words near demency in the dictionary

  1. demembranation
  2. dememorisation
  3. dememorisations
  4. dememorization
  5. dememorizations
  6. demency
  7. dement
  8. dementalise
  9. dementalised
  10. dementalises
  11. dementalising

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