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fugue | fyooɡ |
noun
1 Music a composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
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: I blinked free of my fugue | [as modifier] : a fugue state.
derivatives
fuguist | ˈfyooɡəst | noun
origin
late 16th century: from French, or from Italian fuga, from Latin fuga ‘flight’, related to fugere ‘flee’.