altered state

collocation in English

meaningsofalteredandstate

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altered
adjective
uk
/ˈɒl.təd/us
/ˈɑːl.tɚd/
changed; ...
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state
noun
uk
/steɪt/us
/steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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(Definition ofalteredandstatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Failure to resist chronic obsessive-compulsive symptoms may denote analteredstateof cognitive control.
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Empathetic creativity emerges during empathetic attunement, which, like 'striking a groove', is an 'alteredstateof mind' that inhibits concurrent verbal protocols.
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It could be argued that the 'blessing', in itsalteredstate, co-constructed and experienced by the group on the spur of the moment, retained its meaning and function.
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Whilst in analteredstate, a shaman has to be able to relate what he/she experiences in such a way that it is accessible to the whole community.
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The way a shaman interacted with the supernatural was by entering a hallucinogenic trance, oralteredstateof consciousness.
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In this, beauty is analteredstateof consciousness and can be seen in the mundane and simple.
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They make one shake and go into analteredstateof consciousness.
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The concept of having piousness and being in analteredstateof mind.
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How long will the affected party be at analteredstatedue to this risk?
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Arctic explorers seeing nothing but featureless landscape of white snow for a long time also reported hallucinations and analteredstateof mind.
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However, they could be of great use in developing a hypnoticalteredstateor a deeply relaxed state.
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Some observable abnormal and sluggish behaviors meet the criteria foralteredstateof consciousness.
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Thealteredstateof consciousness induced by hypnosis rendered patients unusually able to produce confabulations, often with the assistance of their therapists.
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It can also elicit hallucinatory percepts in many people, in addition to analteredstateof consciousness.
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This poem possibly describes analteredstateof mind (trance, swoon) which makes the pain bearable.
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One of the methods used to obtain thisalteredstateis crystallomancy, or mirror gazing.
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Periodic dosage of this transfer of power brings about analteredstatewithin an aspirant.
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When looked at with closed eyes, the rotating, flickering light is meant to provoke analteredstateof consciousness.
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Another character had developed in thealteredstateof consciousness but in the same body.
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It was that selective perception that enables you to say you were in analteredstate?
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