Meanings
noundemency (uncountable)
- archaicuncountableMadness; dementia.
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.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 263
Origin
- Latindēmentia
- Englishdemency
From Latin dēmentia, from dēmens (“out of one's mind”).
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