strangification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of transporting (something) into an entirely new context, leading to new insights.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "More precisely, it is a 'strangification' of these peoples in the policy text by leaving their enactments 'outside' of what is inscribed as necessary for achieving European citizenship."
- "All is elegantly phrased, a collection of efficient yet evocative images, attesting to the strangification of a scene, to us and to the poet, already a bit exotic for its tropical location."
- "Cohen's project of strangification—a type of postmodern extension of Freire's term of conscientization—is directed at destabilizing and decentering the monumentalization of the already known and the militarization of existing sign systems established by the academic gentry and mandarins of high status knowledge whose participation is aimed at the legitimization of their own power."
- "In this sense, strangification is the minimum reasonable approach to globalization, as it is directly opposed to hegemony."
- "Simply put, human life is an unceasing process of self-exension by way of 'strangification' as well as self-awareness by way of reflection."
- "The aim of this act of strangification is to increase one's understandability and acceptability to many others, not to become other than oneself."