effacement
effacement noun: the act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
Noun
effacement (countable and uncountable, plural effacements)
- The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- Among the many very baffling inconsistencies of Shakespeare's life the outstanding mystery is surely this: that of all his prolific work […] not a line of manuscript is known to exist today. Nothing approaching this complete effacement can be paralleled in literary history […]1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
- Native Americans seem to have always placed great value on silence and direct experience, and in indigenous cultures in general, silence denotes respect and self-effacement.2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3
- A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
effacement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
effacement in Hindi
- effacement
- विनाश vināś
effacement in Tamil
- சேர்ந்திணைவு, சேர்ந்திணைதல்
effacement in Urdu
- فن پذیری
effacement in Kannada
- ನಾಶ, ತೊಡೆದು ಹಾಕುವುದು, ಅಳಿಸುವುದು, ಒರೆಸುವುದು, ನಿರ್ನಾಮ
Forms of effacement
| plural | effacements |
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Origin of effacement
Borrowed from French effacement.
Words formed from effacement
Questions about effacement
- What does effacement mean?
- Effacement means the act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- What is effacement in Hindi?
- Effacement in Hindi is विनाश (vināś). See Effacement meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is effacement?
- Effacement is a noun.
- What is the plural of effacement?
- The plural of effacement is effacements.
Words near effacement in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: effacement (page history and authors); विनाश (Hindi) (page history and authors); effacement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); effacement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); effacement (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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