Oxford Dictionary English dementia nounnoun BrE BrE//dɪˈmenʃə// ; NAmE NAmE//dɪˈmenʃə// [uncountable] (medical) Mental and emotional problems, Old age Add to my wordlistjump to other results a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember and behave normally see also senile dementia Wordfinderconditionanorexia, autism, bipolar disorder, condition, dementia, depression, mentally, paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia Wordfinderoldcare home, dementia, frail, geriatric, mobility, the old, pensioner, retire, sprightly, widow See related entries: Mental and emotional problems, Old age Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin, from demens, dement- ‘out of one's mind’.See dementia in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishSee dementia in the Oxford Advanced American DictionaryCheck pronunciation: dementia oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
