disorientationn.
1. The condition of being disorientated; deviation from the eastward position.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > aspect or direction faced > fact of facing a direction > placing so as to > deviation from facing east
disorientation1860
1860 Ecclesiologist 21 400 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.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray > condition of having lost one's bearings
disorientation1882
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [noun] > confusion, bewilderment
astonishment1594
fluskering1660
amusement1663
fuzz1711
disconcertedness1752
disconcertion1754
disconcertment1759
bedazzlement1806
muzziness1814
bewilderment1819
flurrification1822
bedazement1888
disorientation1902
bemusement1907
1882 W. 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.
1902 A. R. Diefendorf tr. E. Kraepelin Clin. Psychiatry 15 Disorientation..is possibly a special form of a moderate clouding of consciousness.
1957 Times 4 Oct. 11/6 Exposure to noise levels of about 150 decibels may result in disorientation, nausea and vomiting.
1962 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry (ed. 9) vi. 107 Simple inattention..may cause partial disorientation.
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