dissociative

American  

[di-soh-see-uht-iv, di-soh-shee-ayt-iv, -suht-iv] / dɪˈsoʊ si ət ɪv, dɪˈsoʊ ʃiˌeɪt ɪv, -sət ɪv /

adjective

1. Psychiatry. relating to or exhibiting a condition in which a group of mental processes is split off from the main body of consciousness, as in amnesia or certain forms of hysteria.

2. Physical Chemistry. relating to, tending toward, or exhibiting the reversible resolution or decomposition of a complex substance into simpler components.

3. relating to a disjunction or separation between two or more things.

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Example Sentences

So I think the album is very representative of that experience and I think why it continues to resonate for subsequent generations is, it’s very dissociative.

From Los Angeles Times

She had been battling various mental health conditions including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and dissociative identity disorder.

From Los Angeles Times

One of the main protagonists in “The Dark Tower” series, Susannah Dean, is a Black woman with dissociative identity disorder.

From Salon

Played in a dissociative fever state by Magaro, he can lose sight of what he might actually be putting on air.

From Los Angeles Times

Bradshaw concluded their respective symptoms, even though they could only be observed externally, “were pathognomonic for dissociative and attachment disorders and for Complex PTSD.”

From Salon