dementation

Etymology

From Latin dēmentātiō. By surface analysis, dement + -ation.

dementation means the act of depriving of reason; madness. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “dementation” is a great word

DEMENTATION — [Noun] The act of depriving of reason or the state of being demented; madness. From Latin dēmentātiō, dēmentātiōn- ("madness"), from dēmentāre ("to drive mad"), from dēmens ("out of one's mind"). Unlike "dementia," which names a chronic, degenerative condition of cognitive decline, or "insanity," a fixed legal and psychological category of derangement, dementation is the furious process of unmaking a mind. It is the fever's crescendo that shatters coherent thought, the corrosive whisper of a sustained grief, or the slow, systemic poison of a solitary confinement—not merely the broken mosaic, but the hand that scatters the tiles, a violent transit from clarity into a fog where the self is the first thing to be lost.

noun

The act of depriving of reason; madness.“[…] and so they aver to be drunk, or accessory to anothers Distemper (especially supposing the Distemper under command from breaking out into any other sins besides its own dementation, or stupidity) to be a lesse sin, than to call one Drunkard, on the bare sight of him in a Distemper, or but one slender Information.”