deracination

Noun

Meaning

the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

to move something from its natural environment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

displacement excision extirpation movement translation shift drawing removal withdrawal elimination extraction abolition excavation negation extermination

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Antonyms

renaissance life addition construction advent creation

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Hypernyms

movement pull pulling

Examples

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. Cornel West

Close letter words and terms

deracialization deracialize deracinate deracine deracoxib deradicalisation