Definitions of fugue:

  • noun:   a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
  • noun:   a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
  • noun:   dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who 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