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A state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently
Answer for the clue "A state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently ", 14 letters:
disassociation
Word definitions for disassociation in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination; "I could not think of him in disassociation from his wife" [ant: association ] a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. dissociation.
Usage examples of disassociation.
Deprivation of heterosex in my program leads to an accumulation of tension: disassociation reaction, abusiveness to attendants, flickers of bad French.
Miles controlled a slight twinge of disassociation, and strode up the drive and under the porte cochere, out of the drizzle that was becoming outright rain.
Standing like the Om and the Um on either side of a gate, these two emissions of the disassociation products of water beckon all water-based life to search for its kind at the age-old meeting place of all species: the water hole" (1972.