mental derangement
11mental pain — pain pain (p[=a]n), n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. poinh penalty. Cf. {Penal}, {Pine} to languish, {Punish}.] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment …
12derangement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. craziness (see insanity); disturbance, upset, imbalance; confusion, turmoil, disorder; disconcertment, discomfiture, discomposure. See disease. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Confusion] Syn. disorder, muddle …
13mental illness — I insanity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. emotional disorder, personality disorder, neurosis, psychosis, maladjustment, schizophrenia, delusions, phobia, mania, insanity, nervous breakdown. see insanity, phobia, mania III (Roget s Thesaurus… …
14derangement — n. 1. Disorder, confusion, disarrangement. 2. Disturbance, discomposure. 3. Insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, dehrium, mental aberration, mental alienation, alienation …
15derangement — noun 1. a state of mental disturbance and disorientation • Syn: ↑mental unsoundness, ↑unbalance • Derivationally related forms: ↑unbalance (for: ↑unbalance), ↑derange …
16derangement — 1. A disturbance of the regular order or arrangement. 2. Rarely used term for a mental disturbance or disorder. [Fr.] * * * de·range·ment di rānj mənt n 1) a disturbance of normal bodily functioning or operation <derangements in the sec …
17derangement — n 1. disarrangement, disorder, disorganization, disarray; upset, muss, mess; misarrange ment, misplacement, displacement, dislocation. 2. incapacitation, weakening, devitalization, disablement, invalidation; enfeeblement, debilitation. 3.… …
18derangement — /dəˈreɪndʒmənt/ (say duh raynjmuhnt) noun 1. the act of deranging. 2. disarrangement; disorder. 3. mental disorder; insanity …
19insanity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of mental soundness Nouns 1. insanity, lunacy, derangement, craziness, feeblemindedness; abnormal behavior, pathology; affective disorder; nervous breakdown; antisocial, compulsive, cyclothymic,… …
20Psychosis: Emergence of Concepts — (See also Folie à Deux; French Chronic Delusional States [from 1909]; Paranoia; Paraphrenia; Positive vs. Negative Symptoms; Schizophrenia: Emergence; Unitary Psychosis.) In medicine, psychosis can mean (1) loss of contact with reality, in… …
