What is the meaning of fugue?

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. .
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