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defamiliarisations

defamiliarisations is the plural of defamiliarisation.

Meaning of defamiliarisation

Noun

defamiliarisation (countable and uncountable, plural defamiliarisations)

  1. The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
    • It therefore works via a process of ‘defamiliarisation’ (ostranenie) (Shklovsky instances defamiliarisation as an effect to be found in riddles with their play on words, and in euphemistic references to erotic subjects).1991, Antony Easthope, Literary Into Cultural Studies
    Synonyms:
    ostranenie

Questions about defamiliarisations

What is defamiliarisations the plural of?
Defamiliarisations is the plural of defamiliarisation.

Words near defamiliarisations in the dictionary

  1. defamilialize
  2. defamilialized
  3. defamilializes
  4. defamilializing
  5. defamiliarisation
  6. defamiliarisations
  7. defamiliarise
  8. defamiliarised
  9. defamiliarises
  10. defamiliarising
  11. defamiliarization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defamiliarisations (page history and authors); defamiliarisation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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