disjuncture
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of disjuncture
1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin disjunctūra, equivalent to Latin disjunct ( us ) ( see disjunct) + -ūra -ure
Example Sentences
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Incidentally, I suspect there is a strange disjuncture between all this parliamentary theatre and most of you reading this.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
In “Democracy Rules” he turns his attention to democracy itself, and the threat posed by the disjuncture between citizens and the critical infrastructure of democracy.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021
“That disjuncture between GDP and how most people feel about the economy is even going to be larger in the coming weeks and months,” said Bivens.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2020
But there’s always some kind of disjuncture, a disjuncture that arises from photography’s tendency to show only so much but to often mean much more: A photograph connotes more than it denotes.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2018
One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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