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reconfigurationism

reconfigurationism noun: an emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.

Noun

reconfigurationism (countable and uncountable, plural reconfigurationisms)

  1. An emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.
    • First aim to be achieved is, in the first place, a modular control system providing high reliability, availability and reconfigurationism.1982, Italy; Documents and Notes - Volume 31, page 43
    • ‘Reconfiguration’ and ‘reconfigurationism’ distinguishes itself from theories of a ‘New Aesthetic’ and pretends a more insightful and critically generative analysis.2017, John Cayley, “Reconfiguration: Symbolic image and language Art”, in Humanities, volume 6, number 1

Forms of reconfigurationism

pluralreconfigurationisms

Origin of reconfigurationism

From reconfiguration + -ism.

Questions about reconfigurationism

What does reconfigurationism mean?
Reconfigurationism means an emphasis on reconfiguring what already exists rather than create something entirely new.
What part of speech is reconfigurationism?
Reconfigurationism is a noun.
What is the plural of reconfigurationism?
The plural of reconfigurationism is reconfigurationisms.

Words near reconfigurationism in the dictionary

  1. reconfigurabilities
  2. reconfigurability
  3. reconfigurable
  4. reconfigurably
  5. reconfiguration
  6. reconfigurationism
  7. reconfigurations
  8. reconfigure
  9. reconfigured
  10. reconfigurer
  11. reconfigurers

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