1. A musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
   "Bach was a master of the fugue, as demonstrated in his Well-Tempered Clavier"
    
2. Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create 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
   "She experienced a psychogenic fugue, disappearing for weeks and creating a new identity in another city";
   - psychogenic fugue
    
3. A dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
   "He entered a fugue state and couldn't remember where he had been for the past week"

Derived forms: fugues

Type of: classical, classical music, dissociative disorder, mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state, serious music

Encyclopedia: Fugue