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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, entertainment, film, human-sciences, lifestyle, media, music, philosophy, sciences, television
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontologie (“ontology”); apparently coined by Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx (1993).
