defusion
/diːˈfjuːʒən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Misspelling of diffusion.
Example Sentences
- "It seemed to us to express the right mixture of urgent concern and bracing responsibility that the middle 1970s require. But as the whole book shows, the megalopolitan time bomb is ticking uncomfortably fast. There is little margin for anyone to take a leisurely defusion course."
- "The loss of the collections was immediately reported to General Petrov and he detailed a special team of engineers and mine defusion experts to aid the men of the 164th battalion in their search."
- "1992, Scott M. Cutlip, “The invasion of public relations' domain by lawyers and marketers”, section 1, Communication World, International Association of Business Communicators Contrast Exxon's failures with Johnson & Johnson's successful defusion of its Tylenol crisis - that response directed by a seasoned public relations officer - Larry Foster."
- "China’s long border made land mines an essential and legitimate means of defense, and the costs of converting large stockpiles and its productions lines to meet the three criteria in the revised Protocol II (detectability, self-defusion, and self-destruction) would be enormous."
- "The story (as all stories do) ends with the timely interception of the bomb and its defusion."
- "2002 August 1, Sara Powell, “Nuclear-powered animosities. (Human Rights)”, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, American Educational Trust Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council, argued that the international community...made a fundamental mistake by making its primary objective the defusion of tension rather than trying to settle the issue of Kashmir."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /diːˈfjuːʒən/