disjointure

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noun

An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

noundisjointure (plural disjointures)

plural disjointures

  1. An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.

    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.

    2016, Carolyn D'Cruz, Identity Politics in Deconstruction, page 81
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    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.

    2005, Michael Wyatt, The Italian Encounter with Tudor England, page 65

    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.

    2018, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World

Origin

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APA

disjointure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disjointure

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“disjointure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disjointure. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disjointure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disjointure.

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