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   dissociation

   /dɪˌsəʊʃɪˈeɪʃən/

   noun

   • 1. the action of disconnecting or separating or the state of being disconnected: "we in the West honour a long-standing dissociation between church and state"
   • ▪ the splitting of a molecule into smaller molecules, atoms, or ions, especially by a reversible process.
   • ▪ separation of some aspects of mental functioning from conscious awareness, leading to a degree of mental dysfunction or to mental conditions including dissociative identity disorder: "the dissociations that one can observe in neuropsychological patients"

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