dissection

[dih-sek-shuhn, dahy-]

noun

1. the act of dissecting.

2. something that has been dissected. dissect.

3. a detailed, part-by-part analysis.

Other Word Forms

• redissection noun
• self-dissection noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dissection¹

1575–85; < Latin dissectiōn- (stem of dissectiō ), equivalent to dissect- ( dissect ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

"She regularly mined her own life for inspiration and there was something Austenesque about her dissections of society, its many prejudices and norms."

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I watched Hilty for research but I quickly found myself caught up in her minute dissection and seemingly wild projection.

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But, in borrowing the familiar format of making-of documentaries, DVD bonus featurettes, even episodic reviews or recaps, they insist on a vision of television as an art worthy of discussion and dissection.

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It remains unclear whether the 27-year-old actually suffered from CTE, because the disease can only be diagnosed definitively through brain dissection.

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Patchy approaches — “Rachel Getting Married” gets some dissection with minimal production detail, while “The Silence of the Lambs” gets extensive production detail with no film analysis — doesn’t help extract Demme’s thematic throughlines as a filmmaker.

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Related Words

• postmortem