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defictionalization

defictionalization noun: the process of defictionalizing.

Noun

defictionalization (countable and uncountable, plural defictionalizations)

  1. The process of defictionalizing.
    • Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”1983, William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, George Stade, Jacques Barzun, European Writers, New York: Scribner
  2. Something defictionalized.

Forms of defictionalization

pluraldefictionalizations

Origin of defictionalization

From de- + fictionalization.

Questions about defictionalization

What does defictionalization mean?
Defictionalization means the process of defictionalizing.
What part of speech is defictionalization?
Defictionalization is a noun.
What is the plural of defictionalization?
The plural of defictionalization is defictionalizations.

Words near defictionalization in the dictionary

  1. deficit hawk
  2. deficit hawks
  3. deficit spending
  4. deficitary
  5. deficits
  6. defictionalization
  7. defictionalizations
  8. defictionalize
  9. defictionalized
  10. defictionalizes
  11. defictionalizing

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