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amentia|eɪˈmɛnʃ(ɪ)ə, əˈmɛ-| [L., see amenty.] 1. Mental deficiency; feeble-mindedness, either congenital or resulting from damage to the brain in early childhood.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. (1535) vii. p. lxxxvii, Amentia and madness is all one, as Plato sayeth. 1800tr. W. Cullen's Nosology ii. iv. 131, I have brought Amnesia and Amentia under one genus,..because they are in general conjoined. 1879H. Maudsley Pathol. Mind vii. 327 Amentia is..used to denote idiocy, or the privation of mind occasioned by causes that have acted before or soon after birth. 1887Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 88/2 The word [sc. idiocy] was used until Esquirol first clearly applied it..in connection with both amentia and the terminal stage of chronic insanity. 1914A. F. Tredgold Mental Deficiency (Amentia) (ed. 2) xiii. 226 Secondary Amentia and its Clinical Varieties. Toxic, Inflammatory and Vascular Amentia. Ibid. 228 The fact that the onset of these cases is so often attended with convulsions causes them to be frequently designated ‘epileptic’ or ‘eclampsic’ amentia. 2. Psychiatry. A particular psychotic state (see quot.).
1924J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers II. 252 In..amentia, the acute hallucinatory confusion which is perhaps the most extreme and striking form of psychosis, the outer world is..not perceived. |