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Definition of disorientation in English: disorientationnoundɪsɔːrɪɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)ndɪsˌɔriənˈteɪʃ(ə)n mass noun1The condition of having lost one's sense of direction. as we walked on into the night, an air of total disorientation descended Example sentencesExamples - By 14,000 ft, the air would have started to become too thin to breathe, causing severe disorientation.
- To avoid disorientation, a signage designer has inserted clues on all kinds of surfaces to keep patrons from getting lost.
- When you walk through a labyrinth, you often have a feeling of disorientation or even fear, because you don't know where you're going.
- Movement in any other direction than shoreward in circumstances of disorientation would take the animal away from food and mates, with maladaptive consequences.
- He struggled to bring the aircraft under control while he dealt with spatial disorientation induced by the lack of visible horizon.
- The board concluded that the accident's probable cause was disorientation caused by haze and a dark night.
- There are no distinctions of light and darkness, and together with the combination of several perspectives, this contributes to a general impression of disorientation in space.
- This was, though, nothing compared to the disorientation we suffered from navigating Milton Keynes.
- There is concern that boats in the river could pose a danger to the whale, with the noise of their engines adding to its disorientation.
- The pilot unsuspectingly placed the aircraft in an unusual attitude by not staying on instruments, allowing incapacitating disorientation to encroach on him.
- 1.1 A state of mental confusion.
the hospital environment can bring anxiety and disorientation to patients Example sentencesExamples - However, presenting a slow first act and briskly paced second and third acts does create some disorientation.
- He gradually weakens in his struggle and gets deeper into a state of paranoia and disorientation.
- Today's intellectual pessimism and cultural disorientation distracts the human imagination from confronting challenges that lie ahead.
- When she became terminally ill with a brain hemorrhage, she began showing signs of psychological disorientation.
- Carbon monoxide also causes sleepiness, nausea, vomiting, confusion, and disorientation.
- Here the man's main struggle is against himself and the disorientation played out by his own weakened and wandering mind.
- Not surprisingly, his journal entries during this period indicate real emotional distress and disorientation about the direction of his life.
- I am probably not alone in feeling disorientation at the kind of experience I had that afternoon.
- Monaghan's essay describes her crushing sense of loss and disorientation at her husband's death.
- The Stalinists opposed any struggle by the working class for its independent interests and created widespread political disorientation.
Definition of disorientation in US English: disorientationnoundisˌôrēənˈtāSH(ə)ndɪsˌɔriənˈteɪʃ(ə)n 1The condition of having lost one's sense of direction. as we walked on into the night, an air of total disorientation descended Example sentencesExamples - Movement in any other direction than shoreward in circumstances of disorientation would take the animal away from food and mates, with maladaptive consequences.
- There is concern that boats in the river could pose a danger to the whale, with the noise of their engines adding to its disorientation.
- The pilot unsuspectingly placed the aircraft in an unusual attitude by not staying on instruments, allowing incapacitating disorientation to encroach on him.
- By 14,000 ft, the air would have started to become too thin to breathe, causing severe disorientation.
- When you walk through a labyrinth, you often have a feeling of disorientation or even fear, because you don't know where you're going.
- This was, though, nothing compared to the disorientation we suffered from navigating Milton Keynes.
- To avoid disorientation, a signage designer has inserted clues on all kinds of surfaces to keep patrons from getting lost.
- There are no distinctions of light and darkness, and together with the combination of several perspectives, this contributes to a general impression of disorientation in space.
- He struggled to bring the aircraft under control while he dealt with spatial disorientation induced by the lack of visible horizon.
- The board concluded that the accident's probable cause was disorientation caused by haze and a dark night.
- 1.1 A state of mental confusion.
the hospital environment can bring anxiety and disorientation to patients Example sentencesExamples - The Stalinists opposed any struggle by the working class for its independent interests and created widespread political disorientation.
- Carbon monoxide also causes sleepiness, nausea, vomiting, confusion, and disorientation.
- He gradually weakens in his struggle and gets deeper into a state of paranoia and disorientation.
- I am probably not alone in feeling disorientation at the kind of experience I had that afternoon.
- Today's intellectual pessimism and cultural disorientation distracts the human imagination from confronting challenges that lie ahead.
- However, presenting a slow first act and briskly paced second and third acts does create some disorientation.
- Monaghan's essay describes her crushing sense of loss and disorientation at her husband's death.
- Not surprisingly, his journal entries during this period indicate real emotional distress and disorientation about the direction of his life.
- When she became terminally ill with a brain hemorrhage, she began showing signs of psychological disorientation.
- Here the man's main struggle is against himself and the disorientation played out by his own weakened and wandering mind.
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