dementation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] and so they aver to be drunk, or accessory to anothers Distemper (especially supposing the Distemper under command from breaking out into any other sins besides its own dementation, or stupidity) to be a lesse sin, than to call one Drunkard, on the bare sight of him in a Distemper, or but one slender Information."
Etymology
From Latin dēmentātiō. By surface analysis, dement + -ation.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dēmentātiō