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
Testamentary capacity — Wills, trusts and estates … Wikipedia
Diminished responsibility — For other types of responsibility, see Responsibility (disambiguation). Criminal defenses … Wikipedia
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
