conjuncture

[kuhn-juhngk-cher]

noun

1. a combination of circumstances; a particular state of affairs.

2. a critical state of affairs; crisis.

3. conjunction; joining.

conjuncture

/ kənˈdʒʌŋktʃə /

noun

1. a combination of events, esp a critical one

2. rare,  a union; conjunction

Other Word Forms

• conjunctural adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of conjuncture¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; conjunct + -ure

Example Sentences

What is happening in France now is the conjuncture of several crises at once: political, economic, and social – and that is what makes the moment feel so significant.

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It can also extract chemical information from the experimental training database, offering conjunctures about unknown mechanisms.

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For whatever set of reasons — it may have something to do with natural harbors or some other historical conjuncture — this idea of representative democracy was developed first in Europe.

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Examples of the landscape of disconnections and the fascist conjuncture that it supports are not difficult to find.

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Given the crisis of education, agency and memory that haunts the current historical conjuncture, educators need a new political and pedagogical language.

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