Usually means: Decline in memory and cognition.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word dementia:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dementia: Merriam-Webster
  2. dementia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dementia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dementia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dementia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dementia, dementia: Wordnik
  7. dementia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dementia: Wiktionary
  9. dementia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dementia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dementia: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dementia: Dictionary.com
  13. Dementia (disambiguation), Dementia (film), Dementia (journal), Dementia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dementia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dementia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dementia: Rhymezone
  17. Dementia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dementia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. dementia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dementia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. dementia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dementia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dementia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. dementia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dementia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Underwriter's Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Alzheimer's Association Medical Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Dementia: Merck Manuals
  9. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  12. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  13. Dementia: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  14. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  15. dementia: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  16. Disorder Index (No longer online)
  17. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  18. dementia: Medical dictionary
  19. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  20. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  21. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  22. Dementia: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dementia, the dementia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See demential as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
noun:  Madness or insanity.

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