dementia praecox

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • A Latin phrase , first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia ("madness; insanity") + praecox (whence English precocious), together meaing “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia.

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