counterimagination
counterimagination noun: an imagination that contradicts or opposes another imagination.
Noun
counterimagination (countable and uncountable, plural counterimaginations)
- An imagination that contradicts or opposes another imagination.
- This preoccupation, it appears, was to challenge official constructions of blackness and to create oppositional or counterimaginations of black identity.2012, L. Modisane, South Africa's Renegade Reels, page 33
- In order to forge networks with these strong women, and potentially make globalized links with them, at both a material and imagined level, first they must be taken out of the limited categories Western imagination (and Western academic disciplines) have cast them into, by a process of...2013, Jocey Quinn, Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital
Forms of counterimagination
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Origin of counterimagination
From counter- + imagination.
Questions about counterimagination
- What does counterimagination mean?
- Counterimagination means an imagination that contradicts or opposes another imagination.
- What part of speech is counterimagination?
- Counterimagination is a noun.
- What is the plural of counterimagination?
- The plural of counterimagination is counterimaginations.
Words near counterimagination in the dictionary
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