Derangement
[dɪ'rendʒmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
Editor: Madge
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Disorder, confusion, disarrangement.[2]. Disturbance, discomposure.[3]. Insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, delirium, mental aberration.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See_ABERRATION]
Editor: Miriam
Examples
- Wrench came, but did not apprehend anything serious, spoke of a slight derangement, and did not speak of coming again on the morrow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My landlady is subject to some slight attacks of mental derangement,' remarked Bob Sawyer, with a ghastly smile; 'I fear I must give her warning. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The regulations, however, by which this derangement is effected in those two different branches of trade, are not altogether the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This derangement does sometimes occur, but the curtailment of the number of labourers is but temporary after all. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Labour-Saving Devices and Derangement of Labour. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Orville