DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissociative disorder mean? 

• DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER (noun)
  The noun DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down

  Familiarity information: DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER (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)