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desdoblamiento

splitting

noun dehs-doh-blah-MYEHN-toh Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Also means

unfolding

Usage Note

Desdoblamiento derives from desdoblar (to unfold, to split). In psychology it refers to a splitting of personality (desdoblamiento de la personalidad ≈ dissociative identity); in theatre or narrative theory it describes a character's alter ego or double. The word is also used in physics for spectral splitting.

Examples

"La novela explora el desdoblamiento del protagonista."

Natural Translation

The novel explores the protagonist's splitting of identity.

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