A state of mental disturbance and disorientation.

synonyms: mental unsoundness, unbalance.

Roget 59: disorder; derangement etc. 61; irregularity; anomaly etc. (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness etc. adj.; disunion; discord etc. 24.    confusion; confusedness etc. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage^†; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch^†, hotch-pot^†; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley; mere mixture etc. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.] [Ovid]. complexity etc. 59.1. turmoil; ferment etc. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder^†, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour^†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind etc. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre [Fr.], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work [Fr.], pretty piece of business [Fr.].    [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence; misdemeanor.    [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.    ... show more

Roget 61: derangement etc. v.; disorder etc. 59; evection^†, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization^†; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling etc. v.; inversion etc. 218; corrugation etc. (fold) 258; involvement.    interchange etc. 148.    ... show more

Roget 503: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder^†.    insanity, lunacy; madness etc. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation^†, dementia, demency^†; phrenitis^†, phrensy^†, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain^†; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy^†; brain storm^†.    vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil [Fr.], siriasis^†.    fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice) 608; kleptodipsomania^†; hypochondriasis [Med.] etc. (low spirits) 837; melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia^†.    screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story.    dotage etc. (imbecility) 499.    ... show more

The act of disturbing the mind or body.

synonyms: overthrow, upset.