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depenetration

noun

Etymology

From de- + penetration.

  1. derived from penetrātiō
  2. derived from penetracïon
  3. inherited from penetracioun
  4. prefixed as depenetration — “de + penetration”

Definitions

  1. The reverse of a process of penetration, where something or somebody withdraws or is no…

    The reverse of a process of penetration, where something or somebody withdraws or is no longer connected or embedded.

    • If the first phase in development thinking may be referred to as penetration, the second, as its dialectical counterpart, is indigenization: an intellectual mobilization for depenetration.
    • The social depenetration process is the mirror image of social penetration in that self-disclosure becomes less personal and less frequent.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for depenetration. 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