dissimilation
nounEtymology
From dis- + -similation, after assimilation.
Definitions
The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of…
A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of nutrients.
A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word…
A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.
- Brimstone is "properly" *brinstone, displaying an ancient careless pronunciation made respectable by being called "dissimilation".
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The rejection, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
- In social psychology, dissimilation is the emphasis on distinctiveness from others when they threaten one's identity[. …] Simply, […] the term dissimilation refers to [assimilation's] opposite processes of resisting likeness.
Misspelling of dissimulation.
The neighborhood
- antonymassimilation
- neighbordissimilarity
- neighbordissimilitude
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dissimilation. 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