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derealization en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization ▲ English de- ▲ English real ▲ English -ize English derealize ▲ English -ation English derealization From de- + real + -ization, or from derealize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.
   • Derealization frequently co-occurs with depersonalization disorder, in which affected individuals notice an altered perception of their surroundings, resulting in the world seeming unreal or dreamlike. 2008, Robert E. Hales, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Pub, →ISBN, page 680:
2. (countable, qualifier:The process of, uncountable) making unreal, in general; detachment from reality or realness.
   • The derealization of Arab Americans created the conditions whereby, after the attacks of 9/11, the American public was willing to allow, and sometimes become complicit in, their government's detention, extradition, and torture of Arabs and Muslims […] 2015, Michael Malek Najjar, Arab American Drama, Film and Performance: A Critical Study, 1908 to the Present, McFarland, →ISBN:
3. (countable, uncountable) The loosening of the bonds of (an electron) so that it can move freely among a group of atoms; delocalization.
   • This section develops a theme mentioned […] in the previous section, namely the derealization of the unpaired electron away from the formal radical centre […] 1976, R. O. C. Norman, Electron Spin Resonance, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 162:
   • Indeed, cyclic derealization of π-electrons is at the heart of aromaticity. For benzene, it is found that the derealization of the density is greater between para-related carbons, […] than between meta-related atoms, […] 2002, Prashant V. Kamat, Dirk M. Guldi, Karl M. Kadish, The Exciting World of Nanocages and Nanotubes: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanoclusters, The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 709:

Forms

Coordinates

depersonalization

Deriveds

depersonalization-derealization disorder

Relateds

derealize

Translations (18)

yue 失實症 /失实症 (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · cmn 失實症 /失实症 (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · sv derealisation (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · el αποπραγματοποίηση (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · de Derealisation (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · it derealizzazione (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · uk дереаліза́ція (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · ca desrealització (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · th ความจริงวิปลาส (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · ru дереализа́ция (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · ja 現実感喪失 (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · da derealisation (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · fr déréalisation (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · fi derealisaatio (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · es desrealización (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · pl derealizacja (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · tr derealizasyon (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal) · ko 비현실감 (psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal)