Associations to the word «Derailment»

Wiktionary

DERAILMENT, noun. (rail transport) The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs
DERAILMENT, noun. (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.

Dictionary definition

DERAILMENT, noun. An accident in which a train runs off its track.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King