dissociative
adj/dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.ə.tɪv/US
Etymology
From dissociate + -ive.
Definitions
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.
Causing dissociation.
- The dissociative techniques separated ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
Related to or caused by dissociation or dissociative disorders.
- He had to take a few weeks off school after a dissociative episode.
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A dissociative drug.
The neighborhood
- antonymassociative
- neighbordissociate
- neighbordissociation
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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