amentiform
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.
Example Sentences
- "The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes."
- "Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12;"
- "a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions."
- "This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed ."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more amentiform (comparative)
most amentiform (superlative)