Dissociate
verb
To disconnect or separate something from something else.
She tried to dissociate herself from the controversial statements
Often appears as...
- dissociate oneself
- dissociate from
verb
In psychology, to stop relating to one's own feelings, thoughts, or memories.
Trauma survivors sometimes dissociate from their experiences to cope
Often appears as...
- dissociate from reality
- dissociate from experience
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Formal
Academic
verb
In chemistry, to cause a compound to separate into its component ions.
Water can dissociate into hydrogen and oxygen
Often appears as...
- dissociate into ions
- dissociate in solution
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Formal
Academic
verb
To disconnect or separate something from something else.
She tried to dissociate herself from the controversial statements
Often appears as...
- dissociate oneself
- dissociate from
verb
In psychology, to stop relating to one's own feelings, thoughts, or memories.
Trauma survivors sometimes dissociate from their experiences to cope
Often appears as...
- dissociate from reality
- dissociate from experience
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
In chemistry, to cause a compound to separate into its component ions.
Water can dissociate into hydrogen and oxygen
Often appears as...
- dissociate into ions
- dissociate in solution
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Social Context
Used when someone wants to clarify non-involvement with ideas, groups, or events.
After the scandal, the company quickly dissociated from the former executive.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to express disapproval or rejection.
She dissociated from the outdated beliefs of her parents.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Distance
Indicates creating emotional distance from a problem or situation.
He needs to dissociate from the negativity to stay focused.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Context
Used when someone wants to clarify non-involvement with ideas, groups, or events.
After the scandal, the company quickly dissociated from the former executive.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to express disapproval or rejection.
She dissociated from the outdated beliefs of her parents.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Distance
Indicates creating emotional distance from a problem or situation.
He needs to dissociate from the negativity to stay focused.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Context
Used when someone wants to clarify non-involvement with ideas, groups, or events.
After the scandal, the company quickly dissociated from the former executive.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to express disapproval or rejection.
She dissociated from the outdated beliefs of her parents.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Distance
Indicates creating emotional distance from a problem or situation.
He needs to dissociate from the negativity to stay focused.
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Paul Kemp-Robertson:...
Now, what I thought was funny was the reaction from the P&G spokesperson. They said, obviously tried to dissociate themselves from drugs, but said, "It reminds me of one thing and that's the value of the brand has stayed consistent." Which backs up my point and shows he didn't even break a sweat when he said that. So that brings me back to the connection with sweat.
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The language of lying —...
A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns in the subconscious language of deception. First, liars reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements. They write or talk more about others, often using the third person to distance and disassociate themselves from their lie,
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Keith Chen: Could your...
And what that means is that every time you discuss the future, or any kind of a future event, grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different. Now suppose that that visceral difference makes you subtly dissociate the future from the present every time you speak.
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Why helmets don't...
It's called the corpus callosum. And we think that this might be one of the most common mechanisms of concussion, and as the forces move down, they strike the corpus callosum, it causes a dissociation between your right and your left brain and could explain some of the symptoms of concussion.
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"Our hands were tied."...
differently to a different strain of cannabis a different dose of cannabis a different method of using it I don't know the answer and I don't think anybody else knows the answers there's this this crazy dissociation between what's happening at a federal level of
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David Anderson: Your...
back into the fly brain. But in each fly, we put it back only into certain neurons and not in others, and then we test each of these flies for their ability to learn and for hyperactivity. Remarkably, we find we can completely dissociate these two abnormalities.
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Why should you read Toni...
while Paul D. dissociates himself completely. But in both cases, it’s clear each character has been irreparably scarred. Morrison also blends perspectives and timelines, to convey how the trauma of slavery ripples across various characters and time periods.
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How We're Reverse...
It's like cellular alchemy. These stem cells have almost magical abilities to turn into any other cell type. So what do we do? We take the stem cells, we dissociate them, we then aggregate them
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Stop defining yourself...
becoming the everyone the individual merging into the universal the individual dissolving into omnipresence so if we're able to dis is disassociate
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Verna Myers: How to...
Look at them directly in their faces and memorize them, because when we look at awesome folks who are black, it helps to dissociate
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Paul Kemp-Robertson:...
Now, what I thought was funny was the reaction from the P&G spokesperson. They said, obviously tried to dissociate themselves from drugs, but said, "It reminds me of one thing and that's the value of the brand has stayed consistent." Which backs up my point and shows he didn't even break a sweat when he said that. So that brings me back to the connection with sweat.
Video examples
The language of lying —...
A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns in the subconscious language of deception. First, liars reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements. They write or talk more about others, often using the third person to distance and disassociate themselves from their lie,
Video examples
Keith Chen: Could your...
And what that means is that every time you discuss the future, or any kind of a future event, grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different. Now suppose that that visceral difference makes you subtly dissociate the future from the present every time you speak.
Video examples
Why helmets don't...
It's called the corpus callosum. And we think that this might be one of the most common mechanisms of concussion, and as the forces move down, they strike the corpus callosum, it causes a dissociation between your right and your left brain and could explain some of the symptoms of concussion.
Video examples
"Our hands were tied."...
differently to a different strain of cannabis a different dose of cannabis a different method of using it I don't know the answer and I don't think anybody else knows the answers there's this this crazy dissociation between what's happening at a federal level of
Video examples
David Anderson: Your...
back into the fly brain. But in each fly, we put it back only into certain neurons and not in others, and then we test each of these flies for their ability to learn and for hyperactivity. Remarkably, we find we can completely dissociate these two abnormalities.
Video examples
Why should you read Toni...
while Paul D. dissociates himself completely. But in both cases, it’s clear each character has been irreparably scarred. Morrison also blends perspectives and timelines, to convey how the trauma of slavery ripples across various characters and time periods.
Video examples
How We're Reverse...
It's like cellular alchemy. These stem cells have almost magical abilities to turn into any other cell type. So what do we do? We take the stem cells, we dissociate them, we then aggregate them
Video examples
Stop defining yourself...
becoming the everyone the individual merging into the universal the individual dissolving into omnipresence so if we're able to dis is disassociate
Video examples
Verna Myers: How to...
Look at them directly in their faces and memorize them, because when we look at awesome folks who are black, it helps to dissociate
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Quote examples
Karen Traviss
English Author
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Robert Kennedy
American Politician
In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.
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Dee Rees
American Director
There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.
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Willard Gaylin
American Scientist
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
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David Oyelowo
English Actor
I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.
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Esme Creed-Miles
English Actress
Everyone else went to drama school, and that teaches you how to dissociate from your character. I don't know any technique! I'm just acting by chance - and by connection.
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Abhay Deol
Indian Actor
I have family in America and I lived with them for a while. Every few years, I feel the need to disassociate myself from what I do. It really helps the actor within me.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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Henri Bergson
French Philosopher
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Adrienne Rich
American Poet
At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
Quote examples
Karen Traviss
English Author
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Quote examples
Robert Kennedy
American Politician
In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.
Quote examples
Dee Rees
American Director
There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.
Quote examples
Willard Gaylin
American Scientist
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
Quote examples
David Oyelowo
English Actor
I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.
Quote examples
Esme Creed-Miles
English Actress
Everyone else went to drama school, and that teaches you how to dissociate from your character. I don't know any technique! I'm just acting by chance - and by connection.
Quote examples
Abhay Deol
Indian Actor
I have family in America and I lived with them for a while. Every few years, I feel the need to disassociate myself from what I do. It really helps the actor within me.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
Quote examples
Henri Bergson
French Philosopher
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Quote examples
Adrienne Rich
American Poet
At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
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