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defusion

noun
/diːˈfjuːʒən/UK

Etymology

From defuse + -ion, apparently by analogy with fusion etc.

  1. derived from fūsus
  2. derived from fusée
  3. derived from fuso
  4. formed as defuse — “de- + fuse”
  5. suffixed as defusion — “defuse + ion”

Definitions

  1. The act of defusing.

    • 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.

  2. The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted…

    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.

    • […] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct functions of these events.

  3. Misspelling of diffusion.

    • The duration of the heat radiation from the bomb is so short, just a few thousandths of a second, that there is no time for the energy falling on a surface to be dissipated by thermal defusion; the flash burn is typically a surface effect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defusion. 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