Word Meanings - AMENTIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imbecility; total want of understanding.

Related words: (words related to AMENTIA)

• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• TOTALIZATOR
  A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.
• UNDERSTANDING
  Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• TOTALIZER
  See TOTALIZATOR
• TOTALIZATION
  Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.
• TOTALITY
  1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse. 2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.
• UNDERSTAND
  understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge
• TOTAL
  Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1. -- Total depravity. See Original
• TOTALLY
  In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
• UNDERSTANDER
  One who understands, or knows by experience. Dryden.
• UNDERSTANDABLE
  Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.
• TOTALISATOR
  See TOTALIZATOR
• TOTALNESS
  The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.
• TOTALIZE
  To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness. Coleridge.
• TEETOTALLY
  Entirely; totally.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• TEETOTAL
  Entire; total.
• TEETOTALISM
  The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
• INUNDERSTANDING
  Void of understanding. Bp. Pearson.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• TEETOTALER
  One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.