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interanimate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmət/
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Etymology

From inter- + animate.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Occurring as or involving interactions between separate consciousnesses.
   • The beauty of the queer invitation, Forster discovers, lies in its unconventional temporality, which permits delays, demurrals, and even extended deferrals, but which nonetheless supplies a lifeline for interanimate collaborations that interrupt the self's consolidation into an obedient disciple of heterosexuality. 2017, Benjamin Bateman, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival:
   • Deepened understandings of responsivity, of its basis in both comsigns and interchangeability, and of the basis of comsigns and interchangeability in species-specific kinetic/tactile-kinesthetic invariants, provide the grounds for elucidating the interanimate phenomenon of empathy. 2010, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Morality, page 225:
   • Before going on to show the relationship of tactile-kinesthetic invariants and iconicity to analogical thinking, I would like to interpose a question alluded to earlier: how are new interanimate meanings minted? 2004, Morana Alač, Patrizia Violi, In the Beginning: Origins of Semiosis, page 118:
   • Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural creatures as transformed humans (Daphne into laurel, Procne into swallow) or as transformable into human shape. 1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, page 183:
2. (not-comparable) Mutually affecting; tending to interanimate.
   • The interaction of discourses is dynamic, interdependent, "interanimate," and "interilluminating." 1994, George Kalamaras, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension, page 26:
   • If we agree with Pat Hartwell's statement that thinking and writing are interanimate, then we cannot help but address thinking when we speak of writing . 1992, Linda Bannister, Writing Apprehension and Anti-writing, page 2:
   • In chapter five, the applied chapter, I show how ecological and prima facie formalist and aesthetic values are interanimate and therefore inseparable. 2006, Heather Lea Wainwright, New Paradigms in Aesthetics: The Challenge of Environmental Art, page 46:

interanimate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmeɪt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From inter- + animate.

Meanings

1. To animate or inspire mutually.
   • When love, with another so Interanimates two souls a. 1631, John Donne, The Ecstasy:
   • These voices compete, interanimate (penetrate and inform), and change over time. 1996, Jennifer L. Troutner, Language, Culture, and Politics: English in China, 1840s-1990s, page 45:
   • The third space enables new meanings to be generated as the diverse voices of the official script and unofficial counterscript interanimate. 2006, Jos van den Linden, Peter Renshaw, Dialogic Learning, page 92:
   • As cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical discourses accumulate, and juxtapose, Bakhtin (1990) argues they begin to interanimate, to show up in one another, to express one through the other. 2008, David M Boje, Storytelling Organizations:

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