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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dissociation, from Latin dissoci?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??s????ie???n/ (UK)
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dissociation (countable and uncountable, plural dissociations)

1. The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
2. (chemistry) The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.

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3. (psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
   • 1999, Joan d'Arc and Al Hidell, The Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to Government-Sponsored Alien Cover-Ups

     Project MONARCH could be best described as a form of structured dissociation and occultic integration, carried out in order to compartmentalize the mind into multiple personalities within a systematic framework.

Related terms

• dissociate
• dissociative

Translations

Danish

Noun

dissociation c (singular definite dissociationen, plural indefinite dissociationer)

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Declension

Related terms

• dissociere

Further reading

• “dissociation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin dissociatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.s?.sja.sj??/

Noun

dissociation f (plural dissociations)

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Related terms

• dissociatif
• dissocier

Further reading

• “dissociation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• compartmentalisation

Etymology

compartmentalize +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m.p??(?)t.m?ntl?.a??ze?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

compartmentalization (countable and uncountable, plural compartmentalizations)

1. The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
2. (software) The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.
3. (counter-espionage) The act of dividing tasks involving confidential information so that no one person is capable of leaking enough to be incriminating. Alternatively, it can involve distributing information in such a way that no individual knows the full extent or purpose of the task they have been given, hence, if they are captured or monitored, the enemy would not be able to obtain useful information from any given person.

Translations

Antonyms

• decompartmentalization