Disassimilation

Quick meaning: Disassimilation is a noun meaning The act of becoming less assimilated or integrated, particularly of ethnic groups.

Meaning

The act of becoming less assimilated or integrated, particularly of ethnic groups.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, biochemistry) catabolism (metabolism with the release of energy)

Example Sentences

Judging from the autobiographical texts of these three authors, Natives often mixed assimilation with a degree of disassimilation.

It shows that the brain is not important to the proper performance of the functions of assimilation and disassimilation—or those of organic life.

I see Jewish Renewal as a late twentieth-century articulation of what I called the second stage of disassimilation of American Jews, its constructive/ illustrative phase.

There is a white-black substance which when acted upon by the visible rays of light undergoes disassimilation and sets up nerve impulses that arouse in the brain the sensation of white.

Word Forms

• disassimilations

Antonyms for disassimilation

Common opposites include assimilation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include catabolism, katabolism, catabolysis, catabolite, katabolite, ametabolism.

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