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amentia

[ ey-men-shuh, uh-men- ]

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. (no longer in technical use) intellectual disability.


amentia

/ əˈ³¾É›²Ôʃə /

noun

  1. severe mental deficiency, usually congenital Compare dementia
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of amentia1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin, equivalent to Äå³¾±ð²Ô³Ù- ( ament 2 ) + -ia noun suffix ( -ia )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of amentia1

C14: from Latin: insanity, from Ä峾ŧ²Ô²õ mad, from ³¾Å§²Ô²õ mind
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The former are labouring under dementia, not amentia.

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Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.

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

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

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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.

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