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The act of defusing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed, uncountable
Examples
- 1992, Scott M. Cutlip, “The invasion of public relations' domain by lawyers and marketers”, section 1, Communication World, International Association of Business Communicators Contrast Exxon's failures with Johnson & Johnson's successful defusion of its Tylenol crisis - that response directed by a seasoned public relations officer - Larry Foster.
- 2002 August 1, Sara Powell, “Nuclear-powered animosities. (Human Rights)”, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, American Educational Trust Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council, argued that the international community...made a fundamental mistake by making its primary objective the defusion of tension rather than trying to settle the issue of Kashmir.
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The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, neologism, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Misspelling of diffusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
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From defuse + -ion, apparently by analogy with fusion etc.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English fusion English defusion From de- + fusion.
