mate wareware

Māori

Etymology

From mate (“sickness”) +‎ wareware (“forgetfulness”).

Noun

mate wareware

  1. dementia
    • 2019 October 4, Margaret Dudley et al., “Mate wareware: Understanding 'dementia' from a Māori perspective”, in New Zealand Medical Journal, volume 132, number 1503 (in English), page 67:
      While participants used a variety of terms for a whānau member's forgetfulness and problems with thinking, for the most part their understandings of mate wareware were surprisingly similar.
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