derealization

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.
2. noun (The process of) making unreal, in general; detachment from reality or realness.
3. noun The loosening of the bonds of (an electron) so that it can move freely among a group of atoms; delocalization.

Similar words

dissociation depressive realism irrealism pseudoreality etherealization hyperreality pseudorealism reality distortion field dorveille repersonalization

Often followed by

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Word family

derealizations