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[TranquillityBase]

 Don't overthink this.

Where the over-thinking came in was after I had the reaction to the word, when I tried to explain why it struck me as the wrong word.  I guess I did a poor job of it, but the initial reaction wasn't overthinking, just my honest feeling that it should be changed.

Dementia isn't one emptiness being replaced by another (not that I've experienced what the narrator is experiencing), but a world that makes sense cast into total confusion.  At least that's the best way I can imagine it.