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derealization

[ dee-ree-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. an alteration in perception leading to the feeling that the reality of the world has been changed or lost.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of derealization1

1940–45; de- + realization, originally in the phrase feeling of derealization, as translation of German Entfremdungsgefühl (Freud)

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