dissociation
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French dissociation, from Latin dissociātiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/, /dɪˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
dissociation (countable and uncountable, plural dissociations)
- The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
- (chemistry) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.
- the dissociation of the sulphur molecules
- the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia
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- (psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
- 1999, Joan d'Arc, Al Hidell, The Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to Government-Sponsored Alien Cover-Ups:
- Project MONARCH could be best described as a form of structured dissociation and occultic integration, carried out in order to compartmentalize the mind into multiple personalities within a systematic framework.
- (psychology) Feeling of detachment from reality
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Translations[edit]
act of dissociating
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state of separation
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chemistry: process of breaking up
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defence mechanism
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Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
dissociation c (singular definite dissociationen, plural indefinite dissociationer)
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Declension[edit]
Declension of dissociation
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | dissociation | dissociationen | dissociationer | dissociationerne |
genitive | dissociations | dissociationens | dissociationers | dissociationernes |
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin dissociātiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dissociation f (plural dissociations)
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Further reading[edit]
- “dissociation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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