单词 | amentia |
释义 | amentian. Now rare (chiefly historical in later use). 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. vi. 349 Amencia [L. amentia] madnes & [read and madnes] is al one. 1657 W. Charleton Immortality Human Soul ii. 165 For, albeit, it be most true, that by Hellebor and other Antimelancholical remedies, we Physicians usually cure Madnesse, called Insania, and Amentia. 1685 Poole's Annot. Holy Bible II. sig. Zzzzz3v/2 Madness is called amentia, or dementia, as that which doth as it were dismind men. b. Psychiatry. Psychosis in an acute form in which confusion, disorientation, and hallucinations are prominent symptoms. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychosis > extreme hallucinatory confusion amentia1892 1892 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 48 520 The incoherent form of paranoia has usually been classed and described as hallucinatory confusional insanity; Meynert calls it amentia. 1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers II. 252 In Meynert's amentia, the acute hallucinatory confusion which is perhaps the most extreme and striking form of psychosis, the outer world is..not perceived. 2000 MLN 115 947 In amentia, Freud continues, not only does the ego refuse to accept new perceptions, it autocratically creates a new world according to the wishful impulses of the id. 2. Impairment or loss of intellectual faculties; esp. such impairment occurring as a developmental disorder. Cf. dementia n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] feebleness1340 feeble-mindedness1619 fatuity1621 amentia1793 unnaturality1823 oligophrenia1899 moronism1913 1793 B. Rush Med. Inq. & Observ. II. 5 A defect of all the three intellectual faculties that have been mentioned, has received the name of amentia. 1801 Monthly Mag. Oct. 256/2 The patient fell into that state of intellectual derangement which Nosologists have distinguished by the term Amentia. 1879 H. Maudsley Pathol. of 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. 1914 A. F. Tredgold Mental Deficiency (Amentia) (ed. 2) xiii. 226 Secondary Amentia and its Clinical Varieties. Toxic, Inflammatory and Vascular Amentia. 1935 Lancet 27 July 192/2 Phenylpyruvic amentia, more conveniently termed phenylketonuria. 2013 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 46 163 These two men were at first lionized because of the explanations they offered for the supposed high incidence of amentia or mental deficiency among Kenyan Africans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398 |
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