Demented vs Lunacy - What's the difference?
demented | lunacy |
Insane or mentally ill.
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Suffering from dementia.
Crazy; ridiculous.
(dement)
(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
# a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
# insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
Something deeply misguided.
As an adjective demented
is insane or mentally ill.As a verb demented
is (dement).As a noun lunacy is
(of a person or group of people) the state of being mad, insanity.demented
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}
- a demented idea