disassimilation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of becoming less assimilated or integrated, particularly of ethnic groups.
Example Sentences
- "It shows that the brain is not important to the proper performance of the functions of assimilation and disassimilation—or those of organic life."
- "His experiments show “that about four-fifths of our disassimilations are the result of transformations within the body, comparable to the oxidation of alcohol, and that the remaining one-fifth of the disassimilations are formed at the expense of the living tissues themselves, free of all demands on foreign oxygen.""
- "There is a white-black substance which when acted upon by the visible rays of light undergoes disassimilation and sets up nerve impulses that arouse in the brain the sensation of white."
- "Judging from the autobiographical texts of these three authors, Natives often mixed assimilation with a degree of disassimilation."
- "At this point, "a process of disassimilation begins. The arts, life, and ideals of the nationality become central and paramount; ethnic and national differences change in status from disadvantages to distinctions.""
- "I see Jewish Renewal as a late twentieth-century articulation of what I called the second stage of disassimilation of American Jews, its constructive/ illustrative phase."
Etymology
From dis- + assimilation.