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Definition of "disjuncture" []

  • Disjunction; disunion; separation. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "disjuncture" in a sentence
  • "This leads to exactly the kind of disjuncture we are seeing."
  • "Over time there came to be this kind of disjuncture between disco and funk and increasingly as disco became popular, record companies and managers pushed women [who made funk music] into disco, and disco became more feminized."
  • "-- remember, consumer confidence levels are very high, there's a kind of disjuncture between the consumer confidence surveys and the polls."