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Deconstructionism

Definition: Deconstructionism

Deconstructionism

Noun

1. A philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Deconstructionism

Synonym: deconstruction (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Deconstructionism

English words defined with "deconstructionism": deconstructionist, DerridaJacques Derrida. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Deconstructionism

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kenneth Burke & Martin Heidegger: With a Note Against Deconstructionism (reference)

  • Kenneth Burke and Martin Heidegger: With a Note Against Deconstructionism (University of Florida Humanities Monograph, Vol 60) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Deconstructionism

"Deconstructionism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Deconstructionism" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deconstructionism

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

deconstructionism

17
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Anagrams: Deconstructionism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: deconstructions, misconstruction.

-3 letters: deconstruction, semiconductors.

-4 letters: conscientious, constrictions, constructions, consumeristic, introductions, reductionisms, reductionists, semiconductor, unconstricted.

-5 letters: codirections, conditioners, consecutions, constriction, construction, conterminous, deconstructs, destructions, discontinues, instructions, introduction, microseconds, misconstrued, neuroticisms, noncustomers, nondomestics, orotundities, reconditions, reductionism, reductionist.

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Alternative Orthography: Deconstructionism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 63 6F 6E 73 74 72 75 63 74 69 6F 6E 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#117 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0063 006F 006E 0073 0074 0072 0075 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871698180858684876986758180758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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