- derangement
- n1. disarrangement, disorder, disorganization, disarray; upset, muss, mess; misarrange-ment, misplacement, displacement, dislocation.2. incapacitation, weakening, devitalization, disablement, invalidation; enfeeblement, debilitation.3. discomposure, perturbation, disconcertion, disconcertment; agitation, distress, disturbance, trouble, confusion.4. insanity, insaneness, madness, lunacy, Psychiatry. dementia, dementedness; distraction, disorientation, unbalance, unsoundness; mental illness, loss of reason, unsound mind, diseased mind; craziness, Sl. kookiness, Inf. nuttiness, daftness, brainsickness; infatuation, possession; eccentricity, oddness, queerness; All Sl. balminess, bugginess, screwiness, wackiness, goofiness.5. psychosis, neurosis, psychoneurosis; schizophrenia, Psychiatry. dementia praecox, monomania, automania, dipsomania, pyromania, delusion of grandeur; senility, anility, dotage. Psychiatry. amentia; Psychol. kleptomania, Psychol. split personality; All Psychiatry. melancholia, hypochondria, paranoia, mania, lyssophobia, fugue, alienation, delusion.6. frenzy, franticness, furor, delirium, phrenitis, anoesis, hysteria; Pathol. delirium tremens, blue devils, Sl. the horrors, Sl. jimjams; ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth; wildness, fierceness, violence.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.