mental unsoundness

mental unsoundness
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  • mental unsoundness — noun a state of mental disturbance and disorientation • Syn: ↑derangement, ↑unbalance • Derivationally related forms: ↑unbalance (for: ↑unbalance), ↑derange (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • mental deficiency — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • mental illness — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • intellectual insanity — Mental unsoundness to the extent of being unable to distinguish between right and wrong, or, as sometimes stated, incapacity to understand the nature and quality of the act or, if aware of such, inability to know that it is wrong to commit such… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • insanity — in·san·i·ty n 1: unsoundness of mind or lack of the ability to understand that prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or that releases one from criminal or… …   Law dictionary

  • insane — insane, mad, crazy, crazed, demented, deranged, lunatic, maniac, non compos mentis are comparable in their general or nontechnical senses (for senses of corresponding nouns used technically see INSANITY) and as meaning afflicted by or manifesting …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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  • aberration — 1 *deviation, deflection Analogous words: abnormality, aberrancy (see ABNORMAL): *error, blunder, mistake, slip, lapse: *fault, failing: anomaly (see PARADOX) Antonyms: conformity: regularity Contrasted words: normality (see …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • incompetent person — Literally and broadly, one lacking competency, physical or mental. Usually having reference in the law to an insane or feeble minded person; a person lacking the mental capacity to make a contract or engage in business transactions. Sometimes… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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