deconflation

Noun

deconflation (countable and uncountable, plural deconflations)

1. The act or process of deconflating.
   • However, in doing so, the principle of equipoise—recognized by many as the primary ethical justification for an RCT, any RCT—loses some of its force. You might still find it, but the emphasis is elsewhere: on "social value," on "scientific validity," on "independent review," on "respect," on...2003, Charles J. Kowalski, “Sham surgery: not an oxymoron. Commentary.”, in American Journal of Bioethics, volume 3, number 4, →DOI, pages 8–9
   • If parents and others regularly use see in contexts where it can mean either 'perceive visually' or 'learn; find out'—as in Let's see what's in the box versus Let's see what this bell sounds like—children may hypothesize a sense of the term which conflates literal and metaphorical meanings from the...2010, Dirk Geeraerts, Herbert Cuyckens, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
2. An instance of deconflating.