Deconflation

Quick meaning: Deconflation is a noun meaning The act or process of deconflating.

Meaning

The act or process of deconflating.

More Meanings

1. An instance of deconflating.

Example Sentences

If parents and others regularly use see in contexts where it can mean either 'perceive visually' or 'learn; find out'—as in Let's see what's in the box versus Let's see what this bell sounds like—children may hypothesize a sense of the term which conflates literal and metaphorical meanings from the adult point of view, and later need to perform a process of deconflation before they understand that there are two distinct senses of the word, linked by a conventional pattern of metaphor.

Word Forms

• deconflations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deconfliction, deconfusion, decongestion, decommunization, deconstitutionalization, declassification.

Related Dictionary Tools