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anoikism

anoikism noun: the splitting up of a town into smaller units.

Noun

anoikism (uncountable)

  1. The splitting up of a town into smaller units
    • As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.
    • In one respect conditions were more favorable for the synoikism of Megalopolis than for the anoikism at Olynthos.1918, Allen Brown West, The History of the Chalcidic League, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, page 25

Antonyms of anoikism

  • synoikism

Questions about anoikism

What does anoikism mean?
Anoikism means the splitting up of a town into smaller units.
What part of speech is anoikism?
Anoikism is a noun.

Words near anoikism in the dictionary

  1. anogenitally
  2. anoia
  3. anoiconometon
  4. anoikic
  5. anoikis
  6. anoikism
  7. anoil
  8. anoiled
  9. anoiling
  10. anoils
  11. anoint

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