Derealize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To detach from reality; to subject to or cause to undergo derealization.

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From de- + real + -ize.

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