deracination
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9.9
- noun
- /ˌdɛrəˈseɪʃən/
- Formal
:
desarraigo
- Statist demands that extract the "last full measure of devotion" that most of us would willingly offer to family and dear friends is a corrective device to our current deracination.
- forced deracination
Examples
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If so, this deracination poses a challenge not only for cultural survival but for any economic recovery dependent on the continual replenishment of the vernacular music of New Orleans.
Academic text (2007) -
Winter Haven embodied the deracination of my spirit.
Fiction book (1991) -
Alisa Rosenbaum was destined to create a philosophy of deracination, as her own roots were shallow.
Blog text (34) -
This homing pattern, almost ubiquitous in modern Native novels, is perhaps crucial to finding tribal and individual roots after centuries of forced relocation and deracination.
Academic text (1998) -
In some countries, Jews suffered limitations on where they could live; were barred from certain trades, professions, and government posts; or were subjected to deracination or forced conversion.
Academic text (2004) -
But Dunye's production calls into question such cultural geographies and emphatically portrays prison as a home place, a place of family, and a domestic space, at the same time that it documents the deracination, the attacks on kinship, and the institutional colonization of the psyche perpetuated by the prison system.
Academic text (2004) -
The deracination of indigenous communities often leads to the loss of their traditional practices.
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After years of conflict, the deracination of the population was evident in the empty villages.
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The novel explores the deracination of its protagonist as he struggles to find his place in a new country.
Synonyms
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4.1
Removing people or things from a place
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2.0
Taking something or someone away from a place
77
3.5
The act of removing something you do not need
50
4.3
Removing something from a place using effort or force
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6.1
Moving people out of their job or home
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7.8
The act of separating something from a group or connection
The situation when plants or trees are pulled out of the ground
A process in which something loses its strong link to a particular place or culture
Taking something out of its original situation so people look at it alone
A loss of local identity and traditions in a community
When tribe members lose their traditional customs and social life and adopt another society's ways
An action that takes something away
Complete removal of something, often by pulling it out by the roots
Antonyms
How Uprooted
Surface Forms
Morphology
deracination = deracinate (semi-transparent) = de + racin + ion
The nominalization from 'deracinate' using '-ion' is regular, but the central root 'racin' (radic-) is not a common standalone English base, reducing full transparency.
Etymology
The word deracination comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'away' and radix meaning 'root'. So, it gives the image of being 'uprooted' like a tree pulled from the ground, which is why deracination means being removed from your home or original place.