/ English Dictionary

FUGUE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fugue" is a kind of...):

classical; classical music; serious music (traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fugue" is a kind of...):

mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)

Derivation:

fugal (of or relating to or in the style of a musical fugue)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state

Synonyms:

fugue; psychogenic fugue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fugue" is a kind of...):

dissociative disorder (dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down)

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