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dissociation

UK/dɪˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃən/US/dɪˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,694 of 15,258mostly written

Dissociation is feeling cut off from your own body or thoughts. Experience dissociation, dissociation after trauma, a sense of dissociation.

Mild forms are common and ordinary — driving a familiar route and remembering none of it is one. Persistent dissociation is often a response to trauma and is treatable. In chemistry the word means a molecule splitting into parts.

Definitions of dissociation

  1. 1noundissociationFeeling cut off from your own body or thoughts.C1

    “After the accident she experienced dissociation, as if she were watching herself from outside.”

dissociation is a mental state.

Where it comes from

Latin dissociatio comes from dissociare, to separate — dis- plus socius, a companion. Society is the same root.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *sekʷ-

  2. Latin

    dissociātiō

  3. French

    dissociation

  4. English, today

    dissociation

Borrowed from French dissociation, from Latin dissociātiō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Mental Health & Wellbeing

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dissociation in the wild

  • The dissociation constant is the inverse of the association constant.

    Dissociation constant

  • In chemistry, an acid dissociation constant is a quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution.

    Acid dissociation constant

  • Nevertheless, bond dissociation energy measurements are challenging and are subject to considerable error.

    Bond dissociation energy

  • Pain asymbolia, also called pain dissociation, is a condition in which pain is experienced without unpleasantness.

    Pain asymbolia

  • However, relative to collision-induced dissociation (CID), ETD is advantageous for the fragmentation of longer peptides or even entire proteins.

    Electron-transfer dissociation

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.