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DEMENCY

Definition: DEMENCY

DEMENCY

Noun

1. Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Demency \De"men*cy\, noun. [Latin expression dementia, from demens mad. See Dement.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: DEMENCY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insanity

Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "DEMENCY"

Words rhyming with "DEMENCY" (pronounced 'De"men*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DEMENCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-m-n-y"

-1 letter: cymene.

-2 letters: emend, emyde, enemy, needy.

-3 letters: cede, cyme, deem, deme, demy, dene, deny, dyne, emyd, eyed, eyen, eyne, meed, mend, need, neem.

-4 letters: cee, dee, den, dey, dye, eme, end, eye, med, men, nee, yen.

-5 letters: de, ed, em, en, me, my, ne, ye.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-m-n-y"
 

+3 letters: endemicity.

 

+4 letters: determinacy, endemically, honeycombed.

 

+5 letters: appendectomy, hyperendemic, intermediacy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DEMENCY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 4D 45 4E 43 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    --    .    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 004D 0045 004E 0043 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38394739483759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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