EGAVE

dissimilation

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
  2. noun A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of nutrients.
  3. noun A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.
  4. noun The rejection, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
    After the impacts of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union's cultural imperialism on the national identity of indigenous peoples: their language, culture and historical memory, there have been efforts at the dissimilatory process of derussification.
  5. noun Misspelling of dissimulation.

Similar words

katabolism catabolism destructive metabolism dissimilator disassimilation disseverance disseveration disedification dissociation dissipation

Often followed by

of in and is rule by process from processes

Word family

dissimilations

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