disidentification

noun

The act of disidentifying, or rejecting a personal or group identity.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

noundisidentification (countable and uncountable, plural disidentifications)

plural disidentifications

  1. countableuncountableThe act of disidentifying, or rejecting a personal or group identity.

    Nixon, Cypher, and Heche are all proponents of gay rights and have expressed no shame about or disidentification from their same-sex relationships.

    2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 19
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    The same applies to the tempestuous rows within internet communities, where toxic pulsions of identification and disidentification generate passionate solidarities and sudden explosions of hostilities.

    2020 [2019], Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 99

Origin

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APA

disidentification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disidentification

MLA

“disidentification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disidentification. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disidentification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disidentification.

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