Disjointure

Quick meaning: Disjointure is a noun meaning An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.

Meaning

An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.

Example Sentences

To distinguish between the two opposing possibilities of this disjointure, or disjunction – between 'injustice' and the opening to the other – a deconstructive move becomes necessary.

Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense.

With Henry's divorce and the creation of an autonomous Church of England, Italian intercourse with England entered into a period of disjointure that would continue, except for a brief revival under Mary, .through the end of Elizabeth's reign.

Word Forms

• disjointures

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disjunct, disjointedness, disjunctivity, disjunctiveness, jointness, unjointedness.

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