dereism

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noun

Mental activity directed away from reality and towards subjective ideas or conceptions; fantasizing.

OriginLatin de re →
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Meanings

noundereism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesMental activity directed away from reality and towards subjective ideas or conceptions; fantasizing.

    Dereism thus explains the strange behavior of those unhappily married women who, instead of contemplating and obtaining divorces, become schizophrenic and say that they are already divorced and married to the other men.

    1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 127

Origin

  1. Latinde re“away from the thing”
  2. Englishdereism

From Latin de re (“away from the thing”) + -ism.

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Anagrams

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Chicago

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