disassociationn.

1814 Repertory Arts, Manuf., & Agric. Sept. 241 It seems, at the instant of the effusion of the acid on the spirituous fluid, that its characteristic aroma vaporises or is destroyed by the disassociation or alteration of the elements that compose it.

1884 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Sept. 566/2 Absorptiometric researches on the disassociation of oxyhæmoglobin.

1930 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 38 36 The disassociation or chemical decomposition is a third wave of alteration that follows in the train of leaching.

1971 Project Cyclops (NASA CR 114445) vi. 64/2 The band lying between the resonances of the disassociation products of water is..an uncannily poetic place for water-based life to seek its kind. Where shall we meet? At the water hole, of course!

2004 J. S. Walker Three Mile Island vii. 151 Hendrie became troubled about the amount of oxygen that would be generated in the vessel through the process of radiolysis, in which radiation caused the disassociation of water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

1825 St. James' Chron. 16 July He will see that the association of the Catholics arises from their disassociation from the state.

1841 Westm. Rev. Jan. 219 The disassociation of France from England restores Russian ascendancy in the Divan.

1890 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 252 A sensible, mild youth, of whom you cannot think in disassociation from his spectacles.

1942 Marshall (Mich.) Evening Chron. 18 Apr. These disassociations meant the opening of vast South American chemical and pharmaceutical markets to American businessmen.

1989 Los Angeles Sept. 118/1 Leaving..is really,..a disassociation from your friends..people you small-talk with.

2013 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 27 117 Given the disassociation of the modern laborer from the material product of his or her labor, the natural focus becomes the monetary compensation.

1873 W. Volckman Prevention Poverty 11 On the other hand, a distorted or unbalanced action, either of mind or of body, or of both, implies disintegration,—disassociation,—absence of the harmonious, and sets up within the limits of the individual unreciprocal relations.

1882 T. Ribot Dis. Memory iii. 162 The words that he reads or hears pronounced convey no meaning to the mind; to him they are simple optical or acoustic phenomena; they suggest no ideas, and have ceased to be signs. This is another and rarer form of disassociation.

1936 W. Temple Church & Teaching ii. 30 Psychology..is suffering badly from what it has itself taught us to call the disassociation of personality.

1989 Sport Psychologist 3 134 This exercise consists of in-depth relaxation and programming exercise designed to create a state of mental disassociation, a state that so thoroughly involves the athlete in imagery that he or she loses touch with the here and now.

2014 P. Wylie Very Late Diagnosis Asperger Syndrome iii. 64 The report confirms the underlying condition of ASD, which after decades of ignorance may be buried under other related forms of mental illness (such as stress, anxiety disorder, depression, multiple personality disorder and disassociation).