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DEPERSONALISATION DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depersonalisation disorder mean? 

DEPERSONALISATION DISORDER (noun)
  The noun DEPERSONALISATION DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangenessplay

  Familiarity information: DEPERSONALISATION DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEPERSONALISATION DISORDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

depersonalisation; depersonalisation disorder; depersonalisation neurosis; depersonalization; depersonalization disorder; depersonalization neurosis

Hypernyms ("depersonalisation disorder" is a kind of...):

dissociative disorder (dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down)


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