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dementia praecox

dementia praecox noun: schizophrenia.

Noun

dementia praecox (usually uncountable, plural dementiae praecoces)

  1. (dated, usually) schizophrenia

dementia praecox meaning in Tamil

dementia praecox in Tamil

உணர்ச்சி விண்டநிலை, இள மன உடைவு

Forms of dementia praecox

pluraldementiae praecoces
alternative formdementia precox
alternative form (obsolete)dementia præcox

Origin of dementia praecox

A Latin term coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.

Questions about dementia praecox

What does dementia praecox mean?
Dementia praecox means schizophrenia.
What is dementia praecox in Tamil?
Dementia praecox in Tamil is உணர்ச்சி விண்டநிலை, இள மன உடைவு. See Dementia praecox meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dementia praecox?
Dementia praecox is a noun.
What is the plural of dementia praecox?
The plural of dementia praecox is dementiae praecoces.

Words near dementia praecox in the dictionary

  1. dementia cafés
  2. dementia dialytica
  3. Dementia Don
  4. dementia infantilis
  5. dementia paralytica
  6. dementia praecox
  7. dementia precox
  8. dementia pugilistica
  9. dementiae
  10. dementiae praecoces
  11. demential

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dementia praecox (page history and authors); dementia praecox (Tamil 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.

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