Meaning of DERANGEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | di'reynjmunt
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- [n] the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
- [n] a state of mental disturbance and disorientation
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| | Synonyms: | | mental unsoundness, overthrow, unbalance, upset |
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| | See Also: | | disturbance, insanity | |
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| | Definition: | | \De*range"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]rangement.]
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of
being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion;
especially, mental disorder; insanity.
Syn: Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity;
disturbance; insanity; lunacy; madness; delirium; mania.
See {Insanity}.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, confusion, convulsion, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, deviation, difference, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, disproportion, disruption, distraction, disturbance, divergence, eccentricity, entropy, erraticism, folie, furor, haphazardness, heteromorphism, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inferiority, inharmonious harmony, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, irregularity, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misarrangement, monstrosity, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, oddness, perturbation, pixilation, possession, promiscuity, promiscuousness, psychopathy, queerness, rabidness, randomness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, shuffling, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, subnormality, superiority, teratism, turbulence, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, witlessness |
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