fermentation
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6.7
- noun
- /ˌfɜr.mənˈteɪ.ʃən/
:
agitación
- "They were the democratic masses who thrived in the great fermentation vat of the post-World War Two economy.
Examples
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Second, fermentation and diversity, rather than any particular form of the "new way of being church" or liberationist spirituality, sustain the new Catholic popular subject and civil associations.
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The last point being, fermentation and civilisation are inseparable.
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And so I think you can talk about like maybe a fermentation going on.
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You cannot stop the natural process, all its chemical reaction, fermentation, change of colour, everything is in constant state of change.
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In fact, one of the brewers did happen to dump about a trillion-and-a-half teaspoons of sugar into the vat during 2009, and that has produced an illusion of further fermentation.
Blog text (15) -
Opposing the Ahrars' stance on the Kashmir issue, the Unionists angrily stated that they would finish the Ahrars in one day because of their fermentation.
Academic text (2018) -
Jardim Oratorio suggests, first, that the bad news is only a chapter in a longer story of continuing fermentation and increasing diversification of popular Catholicism (Nagle 1997).
Academic text (1999) -
It seems to me that one of the reasons we find Heraclitus so inviting is precisely because we sense the fermentation, the gestation of that sense of ontological astonishment in his startling paradoxical utterances.
Academic text (2017) -
The country experienced great fermentation as citizens demanded reforms and a more representative government.
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During the 1960s, there was a significant fermentation of social movements advocating for civil rights and equality.
Synonyms
126
3.4
A situation where people protest and cause disorder to ask for change
9
4.6
Public protest and unrest that asks for change in society
4
7.2
A time of strong excitement, change, and public unrest
A strong, stormy feeling that causes sudden emotional change
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A slow, cold process that makes alcohol in beer where yeast settles to the bottom, used to make lager beers
- Specialized
A liquid made by fermenting sugar that is used in beer, wine, and industry
- Specialized
A way of making beer where yeast rises to the top at warm temperatures for ales
How Agitated
810
4.1
51
6.9
138
4.8
1
6.7
126
3.4
12
5.1
49
5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fermentation is also used for social or political unrest, coming from the same image of ferment and fervere, of things 'bubbling' or 'boiling' inside a group. That's why we say a city or movement is in 'fermentation' when ideas and tensions rise and cause big change.