| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A change in normal place or position: dislocation, displacement, move, movement, rearrangement, shift. See MOVE. 2. An interruption of regular procedure or of public peace: agitation, commotion, disorder, helter-skelter, stir1, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar. Informal : flap, to-do. See CALM, ORDER. 3. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychiatry : mania. Psychology : aberration, alienation. See SANE.
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