derangementn.
/dɪˈreɪndʒmənt/ 1. Disturbance of order or arrangement; disarrangement, displacement.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > action of disarranging
disordering1523
disarraying1611
disordination1626
disranking1629
disarrangement1733
derangement1780
disarranging1821
1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 276 A strange derangement, indeed, our riders have got into, to be nine days coming from Hillsborough.
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 417 They could not be incorporated in their proper places without a very extensive reprint and a derangement of the entire work.
1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) I. i. vii. 116 Time must multiply the derangement of strata, in the ratio of antiquity.
2. Disturbance of normal or regular order or working; the condition of being out of order; disorder; disorganization.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun]
derayc1300
disray13..
disordinancec1374
unordaininga1382
perturbationa1398
disarrayc1410
misordera1513
disorder1530
confusionc1540
mistemper1549
indisposition1598
ataxy1615
disordination1626
indigestion1630
tumble1634
discomposure1641
incomposure1644
dyscrasy1647
dislocation1659
disarrayment1661
disjuncture1683
rack and manger1687
rantum-scantum1695
derangement1737
disarrangement1790
misarray1810
havoc1812
unhingement1817
mingle-mangleness1827
bedevilment1843
higgledy-piggledyness1854
ramshackledom1897
inchoateness1976
1737 G. Berkeley Querist: Pt. III (new ed.) §116 Whether this Folly may not produce..an entire Derangement of Domestic Life,..a general Corruption in both Sexes?
1766 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 13 June (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2741 It is a total dislocation and dérangement.
1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 502 Without any considerable derangement in the digestive organs.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 146 The derangement of the woollen trade..was causing distress all over the country.
3. Disturbance of the functions of the mind; mental disorder; insanity.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
woodnessc1000
woodshipc1000
madshipc1225
woodc1275
woodhead1303
ragec1330
amentiaa1398
madnessa1398
frenzy?a1400
madheada1400
maddingc1400
alienation?a1425
furiosity?a1475
derverye1480
forcenery1480
furiousnessc1500
unwitness1527
unwitting1527
demencya1529
straughtness1530
insaniea1538
brainsickness1541
lunacy1541
amenty1557
distraughtness1576
dementation?1583
straughtedness1583
insanity1590
crazedness1593
bedlam1598
dementia1598
insanation1599
non compos mentis1607
distraction1609
daffinga1614
disinsanitya1625
cerebrosity1647
vecordy1656
fanaticness1662
non-sanity1675
insaneness1730
craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
1800 Act 39 & 40 Geo. III c. 94 §3 Apprehended under circumstances, that denote a derangement of mind.
1812 G. D. Collinson Treat. Law Idiots I. i. iv Many actions bear too marked a character of illusion, of derangement, of alienation of mind, that a man in his senses could not by any possibility commit them.
1825 R. Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. 66 Mark of passion there was none; None of derangement.
1874 H. Maudsley Respons. in Mental Dis. vii. 233 Supplying the interpretation of the previously obscure attacks of recurrent derangement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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