Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An unbalanced condition: as, a disequilibration of the organism.
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- noun The act of bringing about a state of
disequilibrium
Etymologies
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dis- + equilibration
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Examples
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The mental dissociation or disintegration leads to an inflating of the emotional aspect of the patient's mental life with a resulting increased nervous irritability and reaction and a heightened degree of susceptibility to emotional disequilibration and fatiguability of the mental faculties.
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In brief, then, tics represent the emotional reactions and feelings of the individual -- the loves and the hates, the likes and the dislikes, the wishes and the fears, the cravings and the dissatisfactions, the bodily and mental tension, unrest, excitement, discomfort and disequilibration.
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