disrelation

Examples

• All

• This knowingness, in fact, frequently specializes in ironic disrelations between titles and poems rather than in a network of correspondences among poems.

  Academic text (1991)

• And indeed she seems to say it all when she remarks at one point that "Larkin's Symbolist imagery is a disrelation with the idealizing originals more than a relationship with them; but the context is one in which disrelations are relations, too."

  Academic text (1991)

• "She arrives at this insight, however, through an intensity of analysis that doesn't belong to the case, so that the disrelations themselves turn into something other than they really are.

  Academic text (1991)

• The example may suggest how separable Larkin's teasing Symbolist titles can be from any detailed interest in the poems they express a disrelation from.

  Academic text (1991)

• And indeed she seems to say it all when she remarks at one point that "Larkin's Symbolist imagery is a disrelation with the idealizing originals more than a relationship with them; but the context is one in which disrelations are relations, too."

  Academic text (1991)

• The disrelation between the two theories made it difficult to find common ground during the debate.

• The psychologist studied the disrelation of family dynamics in cases where communication was minimal.

Synonyms

D

detachment

vsdisrelation

21 6.1

A lack of emotional involvement with people or situations

is the neutral absence of relationship without emotional emphasis

D

disconnection

vsdisrelation

9 4.2

Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet

is the broader state of no relationship not focused on events

D

disjunction

vsdisrelation

2 8.2

A gap or lack of connection between things

focuses more on the neutral state of having no relationship

D

disconnectedness

vsdisrelation

1 7.4

A feeling of being separate from other people and the world

is the same overall state rather than an action

D

disengagement

vsdisrelation

1 6.5

The act of stopping a connection or ending involvement with something

is the simple state of no connection rather than the releasing act

A

apartness

vsdisrelation

1 6.7

A state of being separate from other people

is broader, covering separation specifically as lack of relationship

D

dissociation

vsdisrelation

1 7.8

The act of separating something from a group or connection

refers to the resulting state of having no connection or relation

U

unconnectedness

vsdisrelation

8.0

A situation where things have no link or relation

expresses that same lack as the general concept in the key

U

unrelatedness

vsdisrelation

7.6

A lack of connection between things

describes that same absence of relation as the key concept

N

nonassociation

vsdisrelation

7.4

Not being connected with people or groups

frames the same absence as a general state rather than a choice

D

diremption

vsdisrelation

• Archaic

9.9

A break in a connection between people or things

is the neutral state that exists when no connection remains

Antonyms

R

relationship

∞ 1.8

A close emotional or romantic connection between two people

C

connection

∞ 1.9

A relationship between people, things, ideas, or events

How Connected

connection

∞ 1.9

disrelation

9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology