Definition of "defusion" []

• The separation of the life instinct from the death instinct as part of the process of maturing into an adult. (noun)
• The act of defusing. (noun)
• Common misspelling of diffusion. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The problem I have with his theory is the barrier of the defusion of information in Roman times was probably quite high."
• "Cognitive defusion or emotional separation/distancing i.e., observing one's own uncomfortable thoughts without automatically taking them literally or attaching any particular value to them"
• "Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney."