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n. - Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

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  • I went to the LOLBuilder at I Can Has Cheezburger and went through the torrent of photos being submitted, captioning as dementedness and snark came to me.
  • Rosamund utter dementedness, considering this woman's position, and
  • Mallard had got the vertigo, he reported the gambler's launch on dementedness to the earl.
  • It's a delusion amounting to dementedness to suppose, that with the people inside our defences, we can be taming them and tricking them.
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