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Definition of Disassociation

1. Noun. The state of being unconnected in memory or imagination. "I could not think of him in disassociation from his wife"

2. Noun. A state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently.

Definition of Disassociation

1. Noun. dissociation. ¹

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Definition of Disassociation

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Medical Definition of Disassociation

1. 1. The act of separating or state of being separated. 2. The separation of a molecule into two or more fragments (atoms, molecules, ions or free radicals) produced by the absorption of light or thermal energy or by solvation. 3. A defense mechanism in which a group of mental processes are segregated from the rest of a person's mental activity in order to avoid emotional distress, as in the dissociative disorders or in which an idea or object is segregated from its emotional significance, in the first sense it is roughly equivalent to splitting, in the second, to isolation. 4. A defect of mental integration in which one or more groups of mental processes become separated off from normal consciousness and, thus separated, function as a unitary whole. Origin: L. Sociatio = union This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disassociation

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