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recontextualisation

recontextualisation is the alternative form of recontextualization.

Meaning of recontextualization

Noun

recontextualization (countable and uncountable, plural recontextualizations)

  1. The process or result of recontextualizing.
    • Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization.2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York Times

Forms of recontextualisation

pluralrecontextualisations

Questions about recontextualisation

What is recontextualisation the alternative form of?
Recontextualisation is the alternative form of recontextualization.

Words near recontextualisation in the dictionary

  1. recontemplations
  2. recontest
  3. recontested
  4. recontesting
  5. recontests
  6. recontextualisation
  7. recontextualisations
  8. recontextualise
  9. recontextualised
  10. recontextualises
  11. recontextualising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recontextualisation (page history and authors); recontextualization (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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