Associations to the word «Fugue»

Wiktionary

FUGUE, noun. (music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
FUGUE, noun. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
FUGUE STATE, noun. A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality.

Dictionary definition

FUGUE, noun. Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates 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.
FUGUE, noun. A dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days.
FUGUE, noun. A musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement.

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.