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disenvelopment

disenvelopment noun: the act of disenveloping.

Noun

disenvelopment (plural disenvelopments)

  1. The act of disenveloping.
    • If, therefore, musical language seems to break up and even disperse into always more parceled forms, it is because the analysis truly becomes creative, just as variation is no longer a procedure for developing a theme it would be a matter of enriching, but a principle of disenvelopment through...1993, Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, →ISBN, page 347
    • In our old age, it grows through disenvelopment.2005, May L. Wykle, Peter J. Whitehouse, Diane L. Morris, Successful aging through the life span: intergenerational issues in health, →ISBN

Forms of disenvelopment

pluraldisenvelopments

Origin of disenvelopment

From disenvelop + -ment.

Questions about disenvelopment

What does disenvelopment mean?
Disenvelopment means the act of disenveloping.
What part of speech is disenvelopment?
Disenvelopment is a noun.
What is the plural of disenvelopment?
The plural of disenvelopment is disenvelopments.

Words near disenvelopment in the dictionary

  1. disentwines
  2. disentwining
  3. disenvelop
  4. disenveloped
  5. disenveloping
  6. disenvelopment
  7. disenvelopments
  8. disenvelops
  9. disenvenom
  10. disenvenomed
  11. disenvenoming

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