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disorganized |
disorganized schizophrenia |
disorganized type schizophrenia |
disorient |
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disorientation
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disorientation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun disorientation has 2 senses
- disorientation(n = noun.cognition) freak out - a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug); Array is a kind of delusion, hallucination
- disorientation(n = noun.cognition) Array - confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction; "his disorientation was the result of inattention" is a kind of confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness
has particulars: culture shock
Derived form verb disorient1
THESAURUS
disorientation
aberration, abnormality, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, agnosia, alienation, alignment, bearings, befuddlement, bewilderment, block, blocking, bother, botheration, brain damage, brainsickness, chaos, cloud, clouded mind, confusion, craziness, daftness, daze, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, dementedness, dementia, derangement, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, distraction, disturbance, embarrassment, flight of ideas, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, folie, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, furor, hallucination, hallucinosis, haze, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, jumble, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, maze, mental block, mental confusion, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mess, mind overthrown, mindsickness, mist, muddle, muddlement, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, oddness, orientation, paralogia, perplexity, perturbation, pixilation, possession, pother, psychological block, pucker, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, ruffle, senselessness, shattered mind, shuffle, sick mind, sickness, stew, strangeness, sweat, swivet, tizzy, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsettlement, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, upset, witlessness
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