derealization
English
Alternative forms
- derealisation
Etymology
de- + real + -ization or derealize + -ation
Noun
derealization (countable and uncountable, plural derealizations)
- (psychology) The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.
- Coordinate term: depersonalization
- 2008, Robert E. Hales, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Pub, →ISBN, page 680:
- Derealization frequently co-occurs with depersonalization disorder, in which affected individuals notice an altered perception of their surroundings, resulting in the world seeming unreal or dreamlike.
- (The process of) making unreal, in general; detachment from reality or realness.
- 2015, Michael Malek Najjar, Arab American Drama, Film and Performance: A Critical Study, 1908 to the Present, McFarland, →ISBN:
- The derealization of Arab Americans created the conditions whereby, after the attacks of 9/11, the American public was willing to allow, and sometimes become complicit in, their government's detention, extradition, and torture of Arabs and Muslims […]
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.- 1976, R. O. C. Norman, Electron Spin Resonance, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 162:
- This section develops a theme mentioned […] in the previous section, namely the derealization of the unpaired electron away from the formal radical centre […]
- 2002, Prashant V. Kamat; Dirk M. Guldi; Karl M. Kadish, The Exciting World of Nanocages and Nanotubes: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanoclusters, The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 709:
- Indeed, cyclic derealization of π-electrons is at the heart of aromaticity. For benzene, it is found that the derealization of the density is greater between para-related carbons, […] than between meta-related atoms, […]
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Derived terms
- depersonalization-derealization disorder
Related terms
- derealize
Translations
psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal
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Further reading
derealization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- derationalize