DERANGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does derangement mean? 

• DERANGEMENT (noun)
  The noun DERANGEMENT has 2 senses:

1. a state of mental disturbance and disorientation

2. the act of disturbing the mind or body

  Familiarity information: DERANGEMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERANGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of mental disturbance and disorientation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

derangement; mental unsoundness; unbalance

Hypernyms ("derangement" is a kind of...):

insanity (relatively permanent disorder of the mind)

Derivation:

derange (derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of disturbing the mind or body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

derangement; overthrow; upset

Context example:

she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living

Hypernyms ("derangement" is a kind of...):

disturbance (the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion)

Derivation:

derange (throw into great confusion or disorder)

 Context examples 

Glucose Plasma Concentration (GPC) measurement is an essential diagnostic modality for different types of carbohydrate metabolism derangements including diabetes mellitus.

(Plasma Glucose Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement.

(Medical Sociology, NCI Thesaurus)

The inhibitory effect of this agent is independent of the tumor suppressor genes VHL and p53 and may be related to derangements in glucose uptake and metabolism due to inhibition of glucose transporter-1 (Glut-1).

(HIF-1alpha Inhibitor PX-478, NCI Thesaurus)

No one knew me, for I disguised my voice, and no one dreamed of the silent, haughty Miss March (for they think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers) could dance and dress, and burst out into a 'nice derangement of epitaphs, like an allegory on the banks of the Nile'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)