dementia
/dɪˈmɛnʃə/
dementia noun: a progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
Noun
dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias or dementiae)
- A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
- In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN
- Madness or insanity.
dementia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
dementia in Hindi
- progressive decline in cognitive function
- मनोभ्रंश manobhrañś
dementia in Tamil
- மறதிநோய், அறிவாற்றல் இழப்பு, உன்மத்தம், முதுமை மறதி, முதுமறதி, மனநோய்
dementia in Malayalam
- mental illness, madness insanity, derangement
- ബുദ്ധിഭ്രംശം, ബുദ്ധിഭ്രമം, മരിൾ, മരുൾ, മാനസികരോഗം, മാനസിക തകരാറുകൊണ്ടുണ്ടാകുന്ന ഉന്മാദം
dementia in Kannada
- ಬುದ್ಧಿಮಾಂದ್ಯ
More languagesFewer languages
- dementia in Arabic
- خَرَف ḵaraf
- dementia in Persian
- زوال عقل zavâl-e 'aql, دمانس demâns
- dementia in Vietnamese
- suy giảm trí nhớ, chứng mất trí
Examples of dementia in a sentence
- The old woman with dementia lost her mental acuity.
- She bought me a book of brainteasers, which is both entertaining and also supposedly good for decreasing dementia risk.
- He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.
Forms of dementia
| plural | dementias |
|---|---|
| plural | dementiae |
Origin of dementia
Borrowed from Latin dēmentia.
Words formed from dementia
- academentia
- antidementia
- dementia café
- dementia dialytica
- dementia infantilis
- dementialike
- dementia paralytica
- dementia praecox
- dementia precox
- dementia pugilistica
- familial British dementia
- infantile dementia
- nondementia
- paralytic dementia
- predementia
- pseudodementia
- pseudopseudodementia
- semidementia
- senile dementia
- steroid dementia
- vascular dementia
Phrases with dementia
Words that rhyme with dementia
Questions about dementia
- What does dementia mean?
- Dementia means a progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- What is dementia in Hindi?
- Dementia in Hindi is मनोभ्रंश (manobhrañś). See Dementia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dementia?
- Dementia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dementia?
- Dementia is pronounced /dɪˈmɛnʃə/.
- What is the plural of dementia?
- The plural of dementia is dementias.
Words near dementia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dementia (page history and authors); dementia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dementia (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dementia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-dementia.wav.
Cite this entry: “dementia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dementia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.