bisociation
nounEtymology
Blend of bi- + association; coined by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler in his 1964 book The Act of Creation.
- derived from association
- derived from associātiō
Definitions
A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new…
A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.
- Arthur Koestler's concept of bisociation was introduced in the last chapter to explain how associating two absurd or ridiculous ideas gives rise to humour. Koestler goes on to describe how bisociation may be the key to creativity.
- In Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, images of confinement merge with family images. One of the most memorable of these bisociations is that involving the mother's "imprisonment" of the first-person narrator's hair in braids.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bisociation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA