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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 strangeness
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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