Fugue Definition

fyo͝og
fugues
noun
fugues
A musical composition for a definite number of parts or voices, in which a subject is announced in one voice, imitated in succession by each of the other voices, and developed contrapuntally.
Webster's New World
A dissociative state, usually caused by trauma, marked by sudden travel or wandering away from home and an inability to remember one's past.
American Heritage Medicine
A state of psychological amnesia during which the subject seems to behave in a conscious and rational way, but, upon return to normal consciousness, cannot remember the period of time nor what he or she did during it.
Webster's New World
Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • psychogenic fugue

Other Word Forms of Fugue

Noun

Singular:
fugue
Plural:
fugues

Origin of Fugue

  • Borrowing from French, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugere (“to flee”). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts.

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian fuga (influenced by French fugue) (from Italian fuga) from Latin flight

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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