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单词 amentia
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amentian.

Brit. /eɪˈmɛnʃ(ɪ)ə/, /əˈmɛnʃ(ɪ)ə/, U.S. /eɪˈmɛn(t)ʃ(i)ə/, /ɑˈmɛn(t)ʃ(i)ə/, /əˈmɛn(t)ʃ(i)ə/
Forms: Middle English amencia, 1600s– amentia.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin āmentia.
Etymology: < classical Latin āmentia madness < āment- , āmēns mad, insane ( < ā- , variant (before -m- ) of ab- ab- prefix + ment- , mēns mind: see i-mind n.) + -ia -ia suffix1. Compare later amenty n.In sense 1b after German Amentia ( T. Meynert Klinische Vorlesungen über Psychiatrie (1890) 17).
Now rare (chiefly historical in later use).
1.
a. Madness, insanity. Cf. dementia n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
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derangement1800
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unsoundness1825
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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.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychosis > extreme hallucinatory confusion
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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.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun]
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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).
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