Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

obliterative assimilation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oblit-er-a-tive as-sim-i-la-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

8

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The assimilation of new knowledge that causes changes to one's existing mental framework for organizing that knowledge.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The forgetting of knowledge or obliterative assimilation may be viewed as the gradual and spontaneous dissolution of new ideas from their anchoring ideas."
"This so-called obliterative assimilation contains two kinds of subsumption: a derivative subsumption (i.e., a deductive way of deriving subordinated concepts from superordinate concepts) and a correlative subsumption, which includes learning of new concepts."
"We cannot continue simply to assume a humanistic paternalistic empathy with the suffering of "Others" that Hartman characterises as the "obliterative assimilation of empathy" which quickly becomes self-indulgent."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does obliterative assimilation mean?: The assimilation of new knowledge that causes changes to one's existing mental framework for organizing that knowledge.

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