dissection
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- noun
- /dɪˈsɛkʃən/
- Formal
- The book offers a critical dissection of the factors that led to the economic crisis.
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Watch on YouTubeIt's simply a way of being involved with life, knowing life by involvement, not by dissection.
- It's simply a way of being involved with life, knowing life by involvement, not by dissection.
- Because it's in that dissection that I think we actually get somewhere and can literally advance as a species.
- It's a pretty fascinating dissection of the origins of the opioid crisis, how we got here and the, you know, multiple contributing factors to it.
- I think again, I mean, you put a lot on the table there, each kind of kind of in need of individual dissection.
Examples
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Islamic medicine produced detailed, accurate anatomical studies, even while following the ancient injunction against dissection.
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We get caught up in O'Hara because of his scrupulous dissection of motives and rationalizations we ourselves incline to slight or blur.
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I want a full dissection of all components.
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While no autopsy was performed, there was great dissection of the available facts.
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So one asks, what are the ethics of this kind of analysis, this dissection?
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The text of the physiognomic treatise also encourages the same type of dissection for the sake of interpretation.
Academic text (2013) -
For example, the historical experiences of 'bodily practices,' including 'dissection,' reveal East Asian practitioners' knowledge of the body structures and their materiality.
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The professor's lecture included a detailed dissection of Shakespeare's themes and characters.
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In her article, she provided a thorough dissection of the recent political events.
Synonyms
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Careful study of something by breaking it into parts to understand
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A detailed study of the parts of something and how they work
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A detailed look at a topic to learn more about it
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A careful study that looks at all parts of something
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Taking something apart to study or remove its parts
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A way of studying something by breaking it into parts
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Breaking a whole into smaller separate parts
A careful study of something in detail to understand it
A careful, detailed study of a subject to find important facts
A study that breaks something into parts to show how it works
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dissection comes from Latin parts dis- 'apart' and secare 'to cut', and you can see the same root in section, a common word for a part. So a dissection can also mean cutting an idea into parts for a careful study of each piece.