demency
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin dēmentia, from dēmens (“out of one's mind”).
Noun
editdemency (uncountable)
- (now rare) Madness; dementia.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 263:
- no direct access could be obtained to the banned, or burned, books of the three cosmologists, Xertigny, Yates and Zotov (pen names), who had recklessly started the whole business half a century earlier, causing, and endorsing, panic, demency and execrable romanchiks.