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DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("dissociative disorder" is a kind of...):
disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)
disassociation; dissociation (a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissociative disorder"):
depersonalisation; depersonalisation disorder; depersonalisation neurosis; depersonalization; depersonalization disorder; depersonalization neurosis (emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness)
fugue; psychogenic fugue (dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state)
multiple personality; split personality (a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge)
