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[dɪˈmɛnʃə], (Noun)
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- a condition characterized by progressive or persistent loss of intellectual functioning, especially with impairment of memory and abstract thinking, and often with personality change, resulting from organic disease of the brain
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Origin
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late 16th century: from Latin, from demens, dement- ‘out of one's mind’
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