fugue
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fugue /fjuːg/
▶noun
- 1 Music a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others.
- 2 Psychiatry a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.
– origin C16: from Fr., or from Ital. fuga, from L. fuga ‘flight’.
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