Confused about direction or location; or feeling lost and uncertain about what's happening.
From 'dis-' (not, reversing) + 'orient' (from Old French 'oriens,' the East, where the sun rises). To be disoriented is to lose your bearings.
Originally 'orient' meant 'to face east' because navigators used the sunrise—so disorientation literally means losing the sunrise, your primary direction marker.
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