dementedness

noun

Definition of dementednessnext
as in obsession

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  1. obsession
  2. abnormality
  3. phobia
  4. senile dementia
  5. schizophrenia
  6. unsoundness
  7. delusion
Noun
  • Now, watch Brooke Shields style her classic bombshell hair: Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Their testimony revealed his father was aware of his obsession with school shooters, and that the teenager had even discussed the Parkland shooting with his grandmother around a week before the shooting.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of obsession
Noun
  • Data analytics tools help process this information in real time, flag abnormalities, predict trends and offer actionable insights.
    Paul Kovalenko, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • As noted above, this can occur with structural abnormalities in your GI tract caused by, for example, surgeries that leave behind scar tissue or diseases that affect the shape of your bowels (like diverticulosis, which creates pouches in the intestinal walls).
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of abnormality
Noun
  • Black Sheep stars Nathan Meister as Henry, a man who grew up on a sheep farm but developed a deep phobia of them.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • What the current vanguard of intensive parenting appears to reflect is a deepening phobia of diminishing returns.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of phobia
Noun
  • Patients with vascular dementia had the highest risk of contracting COVID-19 — with odds more than three times higher — followed by patients with presenile dementia, senile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and post-traumatic dementia.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Many suffered from senile dementia or other debilitating conditions, and the intent was to protect them from injury in accidental falls.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
Definition of senile dementia
Noun
  • New data presented last week at the 2024 Psych Congress suggests continued improvements in symptoms of schizophrenia with long-term treatment.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The project dives deep into the brilliant mind of Sylvia Frumkin, played by Shira Haas, a woman trapped in the grip of schizophrenia as her family struggles to navigate the mental health system during a New York City blackout.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of schizophrenia
Noun
  • In looking back at the history of Emtech, the colt who suffered a catastrophic breakdown in Saturday’s eighth race, it was discovered that he was once placed on the Veterinarian’s List because of unsoundness.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes near the Oroville Dam, because of the threat of imminent flooding due to structural unsoundness.
    Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2017
Definition of unsoundness
Noun
  • Her daughter isn’t quite willing to let such delusions stand.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Oh, that delusion also spreads to her Cinco de Mayo party.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of delusion
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