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disorientation /dɪsɔːrɪɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The condition of having lost one’s sense of direction: as we walked on into the night, an air of total disorientation descended...- The pilot unsuspectingly placed the aircraft in an unusual attitude by not staying on instruments, allowing incapacitating disorientation to encroach on him.
- By 14,000 ft, the air would have started to become too thin to breathe, causing severe disorientation.
- To avoid disorientation, a signage designer has inserted clues on all kinds of surfaces to keep patrons from getting lost.
1.1A state of mental confusion: the hospital environment can bring anxiety and disorientation to patients...- I am probably not alone in feeling disorientation at the kind of experience I had that afternoon.
- However, presenting a slow first act and briskly paced second and third acts does create some disorientation.
- Here the man's main struggle is against himself and the disorientation played out by his own weakened and wandering mind.
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