Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of disassociating, or the state of being disassociated; dissociation.
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- noun
dissociation .
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- noun a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently
- noun the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination
Etymologies
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Examples
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When you're talking about it, you use the word disassociation - the sexual revolution produces a rupture of the connection between love and sex.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Complete and unflinching disassociation from the American World Empire will be much as it was for the earliest Christians before the fall of Rome - and technologically worse.
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Complete and unflinching disassociation from the American World Empire will be much as it was for the earliest Christians before the fall of Rome - and technologically worse.
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Complete and unflinching disassociation from the American World Empire will be much as it was for the earliest Christians before the fall of Rome - and technologically worse.
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Complete and unflinching disassociation from the American World Empire will be much as it was for the earliest Christians before the fall of Rome - and technologically worse.
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COOPER: No, I don't think it's brainwashing, I think it's more associated with something called disassociation, where children are able to separate the memory of victimization through sexual abuse from their everyday life.
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What would satisfactorily constitute "disassociation" from creationism beyond what has already been done (again and again)?
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He couldn't argue that they were not true, only that he felt a kind of disassociation with them.
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He couldn't argue that they were not true, only that he felt a kind of disassociation with them.
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They moved out of the shadows, keeping apart, as if each was anxious to establish a kind of disassociation from the others: Trixie, the landlord, Camilla and, lagging behind, Mrs. Bünz.
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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