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traumascape

traumascape noun: a landscape, real or figurative, defined by the traumatic events that have occurred there.

Noun

traumascape (plural traumascapes)

  1. A landscape, real or figurative, defined by the traumatic events that have occurred there.
    • New York's latest traumascape was a site every bit as extraordinary as its counterpart in Stalinist Moscow. Not simply a monstrous and spectacular eyesore, it was a place of immense power, a vortex sucking everything into itself.2005, Maria M. Tumarkin, Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy
    • In his short story, the Vietnam War becomes an amalgam of all modern wars and genocides and Vietnam itself an extended traumascape.2007, Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature

Forms of traumascape

pluraltraumascapes

Origin of traumascape

From trauma + -scape, coined by Maria M. Tumarkin.

Questions about traumascape

What does traumascape mean?
Traumascape means a landscape, real or figurative, defined by the traumatic events that have occurred there.
What part of speech is traumascape?
Traumascape is a noun.
What is the plural of traumascape?
The plural of traumascape is traumascapes.

Words near traumascape in the dictionary

  1. traumabonds
  2. traumacore
  3. traumagenic
  4. traumaless
  5. traumas
  6. traumascape
  7. traumascapes
  8. traumascum
  9. traumata
  10. traumatic
  11. traumatic acid

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