misjuncture
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A poorly articulated connection; a joining of things that functions poorly.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: misunion"
- "The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70)."
- "This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing."
- "The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole"
- "Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by "a structure of misjuncture" (1991:285) as opposed to a "structure of conjuncture," inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290)."