HOW TO PRONOUNCE
dementia
/dɪˈmɛnʃiə/
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4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The library added a book about dementia.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does dementia mean?
noun
- A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- Madness or insanity.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈmɛnʃiə/
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See this word in context.
According to some psychiatrists this kind of training breeds the mental disease known as Dementia Praecox, but I seriously doubt it.
It was possible that now her FORGETFULNESS of it was some form of brain trouble, a relic of the dementia of childbirth.
More book examples (2)
Worse than resentment smoldered against the father, a dull, deadening enmity, born in the hateful hours of his odious, but helpless, dementia.
Yet some of these tendencies, when appearing at all prominently, are so highly characteristic of dementia præcox as to be almost pathognomonic.