disassociation love

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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dis- +‎ association

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2006 2006

  • What would satisfactorily constitute "disassociation" from creationism beyond what has already been done (again and again)?

    A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

  • He couldn't argue that they were not true, only that he felt a kind of disassociation with them.

    And then she was gone 2009

  • He couldn't argue that they were not true, only that he felt a kind of disassociation with them.

    And then she was gone 2009

  • 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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