demency

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English

Etymology

From Latin dēmentia, from dēmens (out of one's mind).

Noun

demency (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) Madness; dementia.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 263:
      no direct access could be obtained to the banned, or burned, books of the three cosmologists, Xertigny, Yates and Zotov (pen names), who had recklessly started the whole business half a century earlier, causing, and endorsing, panic, demency and execrable romanchiks.