Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dereism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dereism
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Mental activity directed away from reality and towards subjective ideas or conceptions; fantasizing.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Dereism thus explains the strange behavior of those unhappily married women who, instead of contemplating and obtaining divorces, become schizophrenic and say that they are already divorced and married to the other men."

Etymology

From Latin de re (“away from the thing”) + -ism.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: de re
Suffix: ism

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does dereism mean?: Mental activity directed away from reality and towards subjective ideas or conceptions; fantasizing.
Where does dereism come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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