Meaning of derealization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it.
   countable, uncountable
2. making unreal, in general; detachment from reality or realness.
   countable, uncountable
3. The loosening of the bonds of (an electron) so that it can move freely among a group of atoms; delocalization.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Derealization frequently co-occurs with depersonalization disorder, in which affected individuals notice an altered perception of their surroundings, resulting in the world seeming unreal or dreamlike.”

“The derealization of Arab Americans created the conditions whereby, after the attacks of 9/11, the American public was willing to allow, and sometimes become complicit in, their government's detention, extradition, and torture of Arabs and Muslims […]”

“This section develops a theme mentioned […] in the previous section, namely the derealization of the unpaired electron away from the formal radical centre […]”

“Indeed, cyclic derealization of π-electrons is at the heart of aromaticity. For benzene, it is found that the derealization of the density is greater between para-related carbons, […] than between meta-related atoms, […]”

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