disorientative

English

Etymology

From disorient +‎ -ative.

Adjective

disorientative (comparative more disorientative, superlative most disorientative)

  1. Tending to disorient; causing disorientation.
    • 1941, Esther Loring Richards, Introduction to psychobiology and psychiatry, a textbook for nurses:
      Toxic—hallucinatory—disorientative reactions (delirium).
    • 2001, Ken Ireland, Sequential Dynamics of Narrative:
      Various subcategories of discontinuity (implicit, internal, modal, external) can be applied, to demonstrate the adaptational and disorientative function of art within different media and historical periods.
    • 2022, Ágnes Karolina Bakk, Hunting the Impossible, Corvinus University of Budapest, page 107:
      She emphasizes how important it is in artistic practice to always change the perspectives of the participating audience, and the importance of occasionally revealing the “interface” of the immersive performance, by creating disorientative sensations or even dizziness.
    • 2025 December 17, Fenrick, 18:36 from the start, in Were 3D Games a Downgrade?‎[1] (YouTube):
      Prerendered backgrounds were disfavoured in action games due to the disorientative effects of shifting fixed camera perspectives.
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