sonsign
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Particularly in Gilles Deleuze's cinematic philosophy, a pure sound that exists independently of any immediate action or narrative progression.
Example Sentences
- "Opsigns and sonsigns are direct presentation of time."
- "By presenting purely optical and sound situations in which no action is involved, opsigns and sonsigns place time at the centre of the cinematic image."
- "Thus, instead of what Deleuze had described as perception-images, affection-images, action-images, and mental images (all types of movement-image), there are now “opsigns” and “sonsigns” which resist movement-image differentiation."