Definitions for fugue

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fugue fugue

Spelling: [fyoog]

IPA: /fyug/

Fugue is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in fugue (efguu).

Definitions for fugue

noun

1. Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
2. Psychiatry. a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase.

Origin of fugue

1590-1600; French Italian fuga Latin: flight

Examples for fugue

Instantly came the reply, "I am very glad I don't look like a fugue."

And now it was no longer a fugue of sounds—it was a fugue of all sensations.

The guy showed up with a giant bottle of OxyContin that he had stolen from his mother and I slipped right back into a fugue state.

Research has shown that a fugue state may be induced by intensely emotional or stressful events.

She doesn't know a fugue from a bass viol, and she never hesitates to say so.

No, Willis never knew any music, and yet he had a good taste, and loved a fugue.

The pianist made no sign, having reached the fugue following the prelude.

Green, however, said: “They can no more be separated than the voices of a fugue.”

So should the passion-music close, and not with fugue of praise and triumph like an oratorio.

And what was played was a fugue—though Petya had not the least conception of what a fugue is.