dissociative

adj
/dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/US

Etymology

From dissociate + -ive.

Definitions

  1. Removing or separating from some association.

    • It was a lonely, dissociative time in my life, when I stayed holed up in my apartment for weeks on end.
  2. Causing dissociation.

    • The dissociative techniques separated ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
  3. Related to or caused by dissociation or dissociative disorders.

    • He had to take a few weeks off school after a dissociative episode.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A dissociative drug.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dissociative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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