Noun
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. Maya Angelou
The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don't feel I belong anywhere. I'm an immigrant. Isabel Allende
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. Atom Egoyan
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living. Alan Rosenberg
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. Mahmoud Abbas
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. Mahmoud Abbas