derealize
English
Etymology
de- + real + -ize
Verb
derealize (third-person singular simple present derealizes, present participle derealizing, simple past and past participle derealized)
- To detach from reality; to subject to or cause to undergo derealization.
- 2013, Haim Gordon, Dictionary of Existentialism (→ISBN):
- Flaubert's choice of the imaginary is part of a bad-faith project to derealize and demoralize the bourgeoisie who, living in the imaginary world of Second Empire pretense, found in Madame Bovary their resonance.
- 2013, Haim Gordon, Dictionary of Existentialism (→ISBN):
Alternative forms
- derealise