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Disassociation

noun

The state of being unconnected in memory or imagination.

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

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"Disassociation" Quotes from Famous Books

... affiliation, connection, intimacy, conjunction, combination, participation, collaboration, collusion, cooeperation, coadjuvancy; fraternity, sodality, syndicate, confraternity, league, corporation, guild. Antonyms: disassociation, disconnection. ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... religion and medicine that ideas of the greatest scientific moment have been throttled at birth or veered into a blind alley through some current theological lunacy. Medicine has advanced through its disassociation with supernaturalism, while religion still remains the last refuge ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... we encounter, every day, the apparent hypocrite. Yet many such men are not consciously dishonest. They are merely victims of disassociation." ...

— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck

... change of title; the burning of Adrian's last written words on the blotting pad; the vivid pictures that were obviously not Adrian's; the consignment to a printer's Limbo of the original manuscripts; my own placid disassociation from the literary side of the executorship. She had accepted them—not without protest; but she had in fact accepted them. Now she struck a reef of things more incomprehensible still. Jaffery had lied to her outrageously. I, for one, hold her ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke