Noun The plural of "demension", this word refers to
two or more of any "fussy" or "precise" or "stringent" measurements (length, width, height, depth, weight, amount, levelling/alignment, etc.), or to an unusually large quantity of these stipulations, which are involved in a construction/scientific project, details that typically cause the laborers and supervisors involved in the endeavor to actually
go partially insane over the fastidious/voluminous details, and sometimes to
even actually see the nauseating mathematical figures in their
sleep. Can also refer to a debilitating mental condition brought on by excessive exposure to
said precise-measurement headaches, or to a similar condition suffered by someone who is unnaturally/totally
obsessed with either (
1) exact measurements of various objects, or (2) the "measurements" of an admired person whom he'
d like to be intimate with.
Harry used to love
fine cabinet-making, but he eventually got such a rip-roaring case of demensia that he had to quit that line of work; he now enjoys befriending attractive
women, and measuring their boob- and waist-sizes.