demencia

See also: demência and demència

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈmenθja/ [d̪eˈmẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /deˈmensja/ [d̪eˈmẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: de‧men‧cia

Noun

demencia f (plural demencias)

1. dementia
2. madness

Derived terms

• demencial

Related terms

• demente

Further reading

• “demencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025