derealize

English

Etymology

de- +‎ real +‎ -ize

Verb

derealize (third-person singular simple present derealizes, present participle derealizing, simple past and past participle derealized)

  1. To detach from reality; to subject to or cause to undergo derealization.
    • 2013, Haim Gordon, Dictionary of Existentialism, →ISBN:
      Flaubert's choice of the imaginary is part of a bad-faith project to derealize and demoralize the bourgeoisie who, living in the imaginary world of Second Empire pretense, found in Madame Bovary their resonance.

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