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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)
