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hauntologists

hauntologists is the plural of hauntologist.

Meaning of hauntologist

Noun

hauntologist (plural hauntologists)

  1. (uncommon) A theorist of hauntology.
    • Hauntologists suggest that the contemporary culture is more generally shaped by an unsettling temporal dislocation, a tendency to loop back to troubled, unresolved past events, and to experience recurring dreams of futures-lost. Time, as hauntologists have it, ‘is out of joint’.2022, Maria Mellins, Sarah Moore, editors, Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 121

Questions about hauntologists

What is hauntologists the plural of?
Hauntologists is the plural of hauntologist.

Words near hauntologists in the dictionary

  1. hauntingness
  2. hauntings
  3. hauntological
  4. hauntologically
  5. hauntologist
  6. hauntologists
  7. hauntology
  8. haunts
  9. hauntsome
  10. haunty
  11. hauocke

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