derealization

[dee-ree-uh-luh-zey-shuh n]

noun Psychiatry.

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

Origin of derealization

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

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derealization in Medicine

derealization

[dē-rē′ə-lĭ-zā′shən]

n.

The feeling that things in one's surroundings are strange, unreal, or somehow altered, as seen in schizophrenia.

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