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defusions

defusions is the plural of defusion.

Meaning of defusion

Noun (1)

defusion (uncountable)

  1. (proscribed) The act of defusing.
    • It seemed to us to express the right mixture of urgent concern and bracing responsibility that the middle 1970s require. But as the whole book shows, the megalopolitan time bomb is ticking uncomfortably fast. There is little margin for anyone to take a leisurely defusion course.1975, Peter Wilsher, Rosemary Righter, The Exploding Cities, Quadrangle, New York Times Book Co., →ISBN, page 13

Noun (2)

defusion (countable and uncountable, plural defusions)

  1. (neologism) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
    • […] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct functions of these events.1994, Steven C. Hayes, Content, context, and the types of psychological acceptance, Context Press, →ISBN, page 31

Questions about defusions

What is defusions the plural of?
Defusions is the plural of defusion.

Words near defusions in the dictionary

  1. defuser
  2. defusers
  3. defuses
  4. defusing
  5. defusion
  6. defusions
  7. defusive
  8. defuze
  9. defuzed
  10. defuzes
  11. defuzing

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