dissociatedadj.
/dɪˈsəʊʃɪeɪtɪd/ a. Cut off from associates or society; disunited, separated.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separate or separated
sunderedc1230
ysondredc1380
discretea1398
divisec1420
dissevered1471
separate?a1475
separated1535
semoted1542
dissociate1548
dirempt1580
dissundered1580
severed1581
parted1595
dividual1598
twain1600
sejunct1602
disassociated1611
dissociated1611
dividenta1616
entire to itselfa1618
interstinct1623
disjected1647
segregant1647
severized1649
divided1658
separate1667
secrete1678
disaffiliated1839
dirempted1900
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > separated into constituents
resolveda1600
analysed1601
untwist1607
separated1661
decompounded1797
reduced1810
broken-down1816
dissociated1882
degraded1927
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dissocié, dissociated; separated or severed.
1882 Siemens New Theory of Sun in 19th Cent. Apr. An inflowing stream of dissociated vapours.
1885 Gray Lett. (1893) 776 In their limited but dissociated habitats.
b. Psychology. Characterized by the disjunction of associated mental connections or the disaggregation of consciousness; dissociated personality, a pathological state of mind in which two or more distinct personalities exist in the same person. (Occasionally used as active verb.)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > personality disorders > dissociation
self-estrangement1841
disassociation1873
multiple personality1886
splitting1890
dissociation1897
depersonalization1904
dissociated personality1918
split personality1919
dissociative identity disorder1994
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. 506 What is associated now with one thing and now with another tends to become dissociated from either... One might call this the law of dissociation by varying concomitants.
1911 I. H. Coriat Abnormal Psychol. 7 When an experience or complex has become dissociated, it tends to act automatically, and cannot be controlled by the will.
1912 B. Hart Psychol. Insanity iv. 47 That the continuous stream of her thought had been interrupted by the sudden appearance of a ‘dissociated system of ideas’.
1918 C. S. Myers Present-day Applic. Psychol. 35 Irène had undergone a severe shock owing to the death of her mother... Shortly after, Irène began to develope a dissociated personality.
1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 68 If we cannot readily recall such principles at will for a critical overhauling then we are in danger of becoming ‘dissociated’, of doing the thing and not knowing why we do it.
1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 70 It links up proverbial knowledge of human nature with the phenomena of ‘dissociated personality’.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 200/1 As a litle girl of three, ‘Doris Fischer’ was thrown down violently by her drunken father, and so sustained a psychic fracture, which ‘dissociated’ her into ‘Margaret’ and ‘Real Doris’.
1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 291 It is not necessary to presuppose a secondary personality or a dissociated consciousness.
1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 11 Children..who were apparently too dissociated for any expression of their energy in phantasy or cognition.
1957 R. L. Munroe Schools of Psychoanalyt. Thought iii. xi. 483 Another way by which dissociated impulses may find partial discharge is through the process of sublimation.
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