disjointure

noun

Etymology

From disjoint + -ure.

  1. derived from disiungō
  2. derived from desjoindre
  3. inherited from disjoynen
  4. suffixed as disjointure — “disjoint + ure

Definitions

  1. An instance or state of being disjoint

    An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.

    • To distinguish between the two opposing possibilities of this disjointure, or disjunction – between 'injustice' and the opening to the other – a deconstructive move becomes necessary.
    • Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disjointure. 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