dissimilation

Noun

Meaning

The act of making dissimilar.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

catabolism katabolism destructive metabolism show performance act attitude simulation pose fake assimilation articulation stunt stall mute

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Antonyms

same standard community consonance agreement understanding

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Hypernyms

biological process organic process linguistic process

Examples

the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation Source: Internet

15 The Mongolian forms "may suggest an original proto-form" /lʲadi/ or /ladi/ "with dissimilation or metathesis in" Proto-Mongolic (Starostin et al. 2003:224). Source: Internet

This comes about by analogy with "January" (which ends in "-uary" but not "-ruary"), as well as by a dissimilation effect whereby having two "r"s close to each other causes one to change for ease of pronunciation. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dissimilarly dissimilarness dissimilate dissimilational dissimilative dissimilator