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dereism

dereism noun: mental activity directed away from reality and towards subjective ideas or conceptions; fantasizing.

Noun

dereism (uncountable)

  1. Mental 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

dereism meaning in Tamil

dereism in Tamil

இயல்புக்கு புறம்பான போக்கு

Origin of dereism

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

Questions about dereism

What does dereism mean?
Dereism means mental activity directed away from reality and towards subjective ideas or conceptions; fantasizing.
What is dereism in Tamil?
Dereism in Tamil is இயல்புக்கு புறம்பான போக்கு. See Dereism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dereism?
Dereism is a noun.

Words near dereism in the dictionary

  1. dereifications
  2. dereified
  3. dereifies
  4. dereify
  5. dereifying
  6. dereism
  7. dereistic
  8. Derek
  9. derelict
  10. derelicted
  11. derelicting

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