| 释义 |
disorienˈtation
[n. of action f. prec. vb.]
1. The condition of being disorientated; deviation from the eastward position.
1860Ecclesiologist XXI. 400 A Roman Catholic church at Wrexham, which, by its intentional disorientation, looks very awkward by the side of..the new church of S. Mark.
2. The condition of having lost one's bearings; uncertainty as to direction. Also, a confused mental state, often due to disease, in which appreciation of one's spatial position, personal identity, and relations, or of the passage of time, is disturbed.
1882W. James in Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb Apr. (1883) 109 [One lost in woods or forgetting in the dark the position of his bed] knows the altogether peculiar discomfort and anxiety of such ‘disorientation’ in the horizontal plane. 1902A. R. Defendorf tr. Kraepelin's Clin. Psychiatry 15 Disorientation..is possibly a special form of a moderate clouding of consciousness. 1957Times 4 Oct. 11/6 Exposure to noise levels of about 150 decibels may result in disorientation, nausea and vomiting. 1962Henderson & Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry (ed. 9) vi. 107 Simple inattention..may cause partial disorientation. |