fugue

Meanings

Plural: fugues

Noun

dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates 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
a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
A fugue state.

Verb

To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts. Doublet of fuga.

Synonyms

fuga, psychogenic fugue

Scrabble Score: 9

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