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derealization
[ dee-ree-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]
noun
, Psychiatry.
- 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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