amentia

[ey-men-shuh, uh-men-] / eɪˈmɛn ʃə, əˈmɛn- /

NOUN

disability

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cognitive impairment debilitation impairment incapacitation intellectual disability limitation restriction

STRONG

damage disadvantage incapability incapacity injury

WEAK

disorder malady weakness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

strength

STRONG

advantage

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

In conclusion, he condemned them all for madmen, fools, idiots, asses, O stulti, quaenam haec est amentia?

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert