demodernization
demodernization noun: reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.
Noun
demodernization (countable and uncountable, plural demodernizations)
- Reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.
- A modern account by the eminent scholar Omer Bartov emphasises such factors as the general demodernization of warfare on this [WWII Eastern] front; the ways in which massive casualties destroyed the loyalties of micro, primary groups, leaving soldiers with nothing to identify with other than the...2000, Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 524
- Ranging from U.S. bombing theory, the systematic deelectrification of Iraq in 1991, continuing Israeli demodernizations of urban life in the Occupied Territories, and the emerging doctrine of state cyberwarfare, Graham ultimately emphasizes the importance of infrastructural warfare...2010, Stephen Graham, Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails, Routledge, →ISBN
Forms of demodernization
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Origin of demodernization
From de- + modernization or demodernize + -ation.
Questions about demodernization
- What does demodernization mean?
- Demodernization means reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.
- What part of speech is demodernization?
- Demodernization is a noun.
- What is the plural of demodernization?
- The plural of demodernization is demodernizations.
Words near demodernization in the dictionary
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