counterimagination
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This preoccupation, it appears, was to challenge official constructions of blackness and to create oppositional or counterimaginations of black identity."
- "In order to forge networks with these strong women, and potentially make globalized links with them, at both a material and imagined level, first they must be taken out of the limited categories Western imagination (and Western academic disciplines) have cast them into, by a process of counterimagination."
- "In the midst of their flirtation, the reader senses counterimaginations at work: the young men sing their evangelical hymns, “I've Got a Friend in Jesus” and “The Old Rugged Cross,” in response to which the young women literally chant the medieval Latin hymn “Tantum Ergo,” written by Aquinas."
Etymology
From counter- + imagination.