Defusion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /diːˈfjuːʒən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Defusion is a noun meaning (proscribed) The act of defusing.
Meaning
(proscribed) The act of defusing.
More Meanings
- Misspelling of diffusion.
- (psychology, neologism) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
Example Sentences
The story (as all stories do) ends with the timely interception of the bomb and its defusion.
[…] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct functions of these events.
The loss of the collections was immediately reported to General Petrov and he detailed a special team of engineers and mine defusion experts to aid the men of the 164th battalion in their search.
The duration of the heat radiation from the bomb is so short, just a few thousandths of a second, that there is no time for the energy falling on a surface to be dissipated by thermal defusion; the flash burn is typically a surface effect.
Word Forms
- defusions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dispelment, defictionalization, dedispersion, dispansion, deflation, deconflation.
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