FUGUE

noun Etymology: probably from Italian fuga flight, ~, from Latin, flight, from fugere Date: 1597 1. a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts, something that resembles a ~ especially in interweaving repetitive elements, a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed, ~ verb fuguist noun