mental+alienation

  • 11mental — mental, ale, aux [ mɑ̃tal, o ] adj. • mentel 1371; bas lat. mentalis, de mens, mentis « esprit » 1 ♦ Qui se fait dans l esprit seulement, sans expression orale ou écrite. Opérations mentales. Calcul mental. Lecture mentale. Restriction mentale. 2 …

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  • 12alienation of affections — alienation of affections: the diversion of a person s affection from someone (as a spouse) who has certain rights or claims to such affection usu. to a third person who is held to be the instigator or cause of the diversion – called also… …

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  • 13mental — mental, ale 1. (man tal, ta l ) adj. 1°   Qui se fait dans l esprit. •   Il suppose que l esprit fait des propositions mentales dans lesquelles il joint ou sépare les idées sans l intervention des mots, CONDILLAC Conn. hum. IV, 2.    L oraison… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 14alienation — (n.) transfer of ownership, late 14c., from O.Fr. alienacion and directly from L. alienationem (nom. alienatio) a transfer, surrender, noun of action from pp. stem of alienare (see ALIENATE (Cf. alienate)). It also meant loss or derangement of… …

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  • 15alienation — [āl΄yən ā′shən, āl΄ē ənā′shən] n. [ME & OFr < L alienatio, separation, aversion, aberration (of the mind): see ALIENATE] 1. an alienating or being alienated; specif., estrangement or detachment 2. mental derangement; insanity …

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  • 16Aliénation mentale — Le terme aliénation dans le sens aliénation mentale a été utilisé pour la première dans le sens médical et psychiatrique par Philippe Pinel dans un texte de 1809 : L heureuse influence exercée dans ces derniers temps sur la médecin par l… …

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  • 17alienation — An estrangement, as in alienation of affections; also a mental derangement. A transfer of property in such manner as to transfer title. Butler v Fitzgerald, 43 Neb 192. Within the meaning of a statute requiring the concurrence of both spouses to… …

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  • 18mental 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,… …

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  • 19alienation — Synonyms and related words: abalienation, aberration, abnormality, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree, aloneness, aloofness, amortization, amortizement, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, apostasy, assignation, assignment …

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  • 20mental 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,… …

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