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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

disjuncture en · NOUN

Etymology

By surface analysis, dis- + juncture, or, by surface analysis, disjunct + -ure.

Meanings

  1. A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.
    • In this chapter, we look at how women coordinate the everyday scheduling disjuncture between paid employment, both theirs and their husbands,^([sic]) and the scheduling of the school. 2005, Alison I. Griffith, Dorothy E. Smith, Mothering for Schooling, page 47:

Forms

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disjunctures Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

misjuncture

Relateds

dysfunction

Synonyms

disjunction