disassociation
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8.4
- noun
- /ˌdɪsəˈsoʊsieɪʃən/
- Specialized
- For a young person experiencing trauma, disassociation (or the freeze response) is the most intelligent survival response available to them.
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Watch on YouTubeI've become addicted to disassociation from feelings.
- I've become addicted to disassociation from feelings.
- Cancer threw me through the window of my disassociation into the center of my body's crisis.
- And then there's a more extreme version of Freeze which is disassociation.
- But the the the more elite you get, the more like unhealthy disassociation you have with where you stand in humanity.
- The word of the day today is disassociation.
- But on the other hand, I think he did what was called disassociation.
- Sought has a in one of his novels writes about a a character that has the same sort of disassociation from the world.
Examples
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And yet he could think of nothing else to explain such an extreme disassociation.
Fiction book (2002) -
Points one to four above show a severe disassociation from reality.
Blog text (2) -
As I expected, the subjects' first reaction was one of disassociation.
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Each of these participants revealed disassociation between their perceived sense of self and the prescribed university identity.
Academic text (2011) -
She had a feeling of disassociation, a feeling that something wasn't real.
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As a result, each of these characters shows classic traumatic symptoms of disassociation and withdrawal, including the inability to locate the words to recount their experience.
Academic text (2008) -
During therapy, he experienced a moment of disassociation where he felt detached from his emotions.
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The soldier spoke about his disassociation from the traumatic events he witnessed in combat.
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She described a profound sense of disassociation during the stressful situation, as if she were watching herself from outside her body.
Synonyms
8
4.2
Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet
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6.5
The act of stopping a connection or ending involvement with something
4
6.1
The act of separating something from the thing it is connected to
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8.7
A mental state in which a person feels separated from themselves or their memories
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9.9
A person feels detached from themselves and their identity
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8.7
Separating thoughts or feelings into different groups without thinking to reduce worry
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7.7
A way to separate a memory from the feeling it first caused
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9.7
A feeling of being separate from your body and the feelings in it
Antonyms
How Severe
- Specialized
1
9.9
- Specialized
90
6.7
- Specialized
3
8.4
- Specialized
2
9.9
23
6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
disassociation = disassociate (semi-transparent) = dis + associate + ion
The noun is formed in a regular way from the verb 'disassociate' and means the act or state of disassociating.
Etymology
Disassociation comes from the prefix dis- meaning 'apart' and the word associate meaning 'to join or connect', the same root behind social and society. So, in psychology it pictures a part of your feelings, memory, or experience becoming 'apart' from the rest, which explains the sense of not feeling fully present.