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disidentification en · NOUN

Etymology

From dis- + identification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The 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:
   • 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:

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