disassociation or dissociation?
Both these words, and the verbs (disassociate, dissociate) from which they come, share the meaning "separation from a relationship with another," and in this sense they are interchangeable: sought disassociation/dissociation from the scandal;sought to dissociate/disassociate themselves from the scandal.Dissociation, however, does have two senses not shared by disassociation: in psychology and psychiatry, "separation of emotions as a defense mechanism" and in chemistry, "the breaking up of a molecule into simpler components." Do not confuse the two words.
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