dissociation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dis=so=ci=a=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dissociation, n.
1 the act or an instance of dissociating.
2 Psychol. the state of suffering from dissociated personality.

THESAURUS

dissociation

alienation, alpha decay, alternating personality, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, beta decay, blame-shifting, bombardment, breeding, bullet, catalysis, catalyst, chain reaction, cleavage, compensation, decay, decompensation, defense mechanism, depersonalization, dereism, dereistic thinking, dialysis, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disintegration series, disjunction, disjuncture, displacement, dissociation of personality, double personality, dual personality, emotional dissociation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, exchange reaction, fantasizing, fantasy, fission, fission reaction, flight, gamma decay, hydrolysis, hydrolyst, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, ionization, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, mental dissociation, multiple personality, negativism, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, overcompensation, paranoia, paranoid personality, personality disorganization, photodisintegration, photolysis, projection, proton gun, proton reaction, psychotaxis, rationalization, resistance, reversible reaction, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizophrenia, schizothymia, separateness, sociological adjustive reactions, split personality, splitting, splitting the atom, stimulation, sublimation, substitution, target, thermolysis, thermonuclear reaction, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

ROGET THESAURUS

dissociation

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.