Deracinated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Deracinated is an adjective meaning Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
Meaning
Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
More Meanings
- Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.
- simple past and past participle of deracinate
Example Sentences
In the related introduction to his essays, he contrasts his own emphasis on tradition with another, more recent—and more deracinated — approach.
The deracinated Jew is like the deracinated Negro is like the deracinated European is like the deracinated American, as Gertrude Stein might put it.
Deracinated concepts, like deracinated particulars, travel much more easily. I think one can view Deleuze and Guattari's commercial and pedagogic concepts as both deracinated in this sense, though, of course, made to then move for very different purposes.
In both, the blame lies with preceding generations who have passed down their apocalyptic sins for the youth to suffer: a deracinated people, a scarred and exploited landscape, and perhaps most importantly, a slobbish, all-too-comfortable generation of men.
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Related dictionary entries include unassimilable, rootless, cultureless, solipsistic, unassimilated, exclusivist.
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