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   dementia

   /dɪˈmɛnʃə/

   noun

   • 1. a condition characterized by progressive or persistent loss of intellectual functioning, especially with impairment of memory and abstract thinking, and often with personality change, resulting from organic disease of the brain.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin, from demens, dement- ‘out of one's mind’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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