deracination
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- noun
- /ˌdɛrəˈseɪʃən/
- Formal
- 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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2.0
Taking something or someone away from a place
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4.1
Removing people or things from a place
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3.5
The act of removing something you do not need
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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
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9.8
Complete removal of something, often by pulling it out by the roots
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9.9
A process in which something loses its strong link to a particular place or culture
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9.9
Taking something out of its original situation so people look at it alone
The situation when plants or trees are pulled out of the ground
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
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.