ossification
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9.5
- noun
- /ˌɑsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Formal
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rigidez
- It will likely prevent the ossification of the ruling elite and the emergence of personal fiefdoms.
So we get the problem that we call ossification.
- So we get the problem that we call ossification.
Examples
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Learning from your students is essential to continued success and the avoidance of ossification.
Blog text (30) -
What has saved the West from ossification is a chronic state of spiritual warfare.
Academic text (1996) -
Meanwhile, efforts to adapt the test to the transnational context have only led to ossification and generalization because the added inquiries exceed judicial capacity.
Academic text (2017) -
Meanwhile, the less salient factors—those related to abstract systemic or foreign interests—are most at risk of ossification.
Academic text (2017) -
In the Soviet Union, it is probably accurate to say that the main forces destabilizing the regime were internal: economic backwardness and mismanagement, technological retardation, bureaucratic ossification, political and moral bankruptcy, maybe even alcoholism.
Academic text (2002) -
The company's ossification is evident in its outdated policies and resistance to new ideas.
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To avoid ossification in their relationships, they decided to regularly seek feedback from each other.
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Cultural ossification can hinder progress as individuals become too rigid in their beliefs.
Synonyms
3
6.9
Refusing to change ideas or plans
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7.4
A state in which ideas or systems become rigid and stop changing
A slow change that makes ideas or systems become fixed and stop changing
A strict way of thinking that does not change
Antonyms
How Rigid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ossification comes from the Latin root oss- 'bone' and the part -fication 'making'. A helpful way to remember the figurative meaning is to imagine ideas or systems 'turning to bone'—they become hard and stop changing, which is why we call that kind of rigidity ossification.