Meaning of fugue

Definition of fugue

(noun) dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create 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 musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement

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