disorientative

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1. Tending to disorient; causing disorientation.

   Toxic—hallucinatory—disorientative reactions (delirium).

   1941, Esther Loring Richards, Introduction to psychobiology and psychiatry, a textbook for nurses

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   Various subcategories of discontinuity (implicit, internal, modal, external) can be applied, to demonstrate the adaptational and disorientative function of art within different media and historical periods.

   2001, Ken Ireland, Sequential Dynamics of Narrative

   She emphasizes how important it is in artistic practice to always change the perspectives of the participating audience, and the importance of occasionally revealing the “interface” of the immersive performance, by creating disorientative sensations or even dizziness.

   2022, Ágnes Karolina Bakk, Hunting the Impossible, Corvinus University of Budapest, page 107

   Prerendered backgrounds were disfavoured in action games due to the disorientative effects of shifting fixed camera perspectives.

   2025 December 17, Fenrick, 18:36 from the start, in Were 3D Games a Downgrade? (YouTube)