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noun
- (psychology) A desire, especially subconscious, for the death of oneself or of someone else.
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| dependence |
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noun
- The state of being dependent, of relying upon another.
- He had a deep on her for guidance.
- An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.
- Her on cocaine was her ruination.
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| depersonalization |
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noun
- the act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized
- (psychology) the loss of one's sense of personal identity
- (psychiatry) A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion
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| depressed |
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adjective
- Severely despondent and unhappy.
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
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| depression |
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noun
- (context, geography) an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings
- (context, psychology) in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future
- (context, psychology) in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide
- (context, meteorology) an area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes
- (context, economics) a period of major economic contraction
- The Great Depression (US history)
- (context, biology, physiology) a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation
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| depressive |
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noun - A person suffering from depression.
adjective - Tending to produce depression; dispiriting; melancholy.
- Being depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
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| desensitization |
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noun
- The act or process of desensitize, desensitizing, of dulling or reduce, reducing sensation.
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| dipsomania |
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noun (no plural)
- alcoholism. An elaborate term for an addiction to alcohol.
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| dipsomaniac |
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noun dispomaniac
- a person addicted to alcohol
- one who abuses alcohol by drinking to excess
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| disorient |
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verb
- To cause to lose orientation or direction.
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| displacement |
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- The act of displace, displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- "Unnecessary of funds." -A. Hamilton.
- "The of the sun by parallax." -Whewell.
- The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- (chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
- (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodge, dodging.
- (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
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| dissociation |
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noun
- The act of dissociate, dissociating or disunite, disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
- (chemistry) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.
- the of the sulphur molecules
- the of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia
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- (psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
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| disturbed |
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verb - (past of, disturb)
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| dyscalculia |
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noun
- (pathology) Difficulty in solving mathematical problems.
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| dysmnesia |
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noun
- poor memory
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| dysthymia |
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noun
- A tendency to be depressed, without hope.
- One form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least 2 years.
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