demodernization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A modern account by the eminent scholar Omer Bartov emphasises such factors as the general demodernization of warfare on this [WWII Eastern] front; the ways in which massive casualties destroyed the loyalties of micro, primary groups, leaving soldiers with nothing to identify with other than the macro group of race and nation; [...]"
- "Ranging from U.S. bombing theory, the systematic deelectrification of Iraq in 1991, continuing Israeli demodernizations of urban life in the Occupied Territories, and the emerging doctrine of state cyberwarfare, Graham ultimately emphasizes the importance of infrastructural warfare..."
Etymology
From de- + modernization or demodernize + -ation.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de-, demodernize
- Suffix: modernization, -ation