headmate

== English == === Etymology === From head +‎ -mate. See head (“mind, thoughts”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɛdmeɪt/ === Noun === headmate (plural headmates) (multiplicity slang) One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity. Synonyms: alter, systemmate 2018, "The Entropy System", Toi Magazine, December 2018/January 2019, page 56: The first one of the headmates (our word for alter) I was aware of was a boy named Josh. 2020, Tynan Drake, "Intersectional Representation: LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse voices in transmedia fiction", paper submitted to Ball State University, page 36: With co-fronting, typically only one headmate at a time functions as the ‘main fronter’ who does the majority of physical driving of the body, […] For more quotations using this term, see Citations:headmate. ==== Coordinate terms ==== imaginary friend === Anagrams === meathead