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disjuncture
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dis·junc·ture  (ds-jngkchr)
n.
Disjunction; disunion; separation.
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Noun1.disjuncture - state of being disconnected
disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction
separation - the state of lacking unity
separability - the capability of being separated
incoherence, incoherency - lack of cohesion or clarity or organization


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Nine studies, based on field research conducted throughout Yorubaland, focus on cloth and clothing used in "traditionalist," Christian, and Islamic settings to identify continuities and disjunctures in the use, formal qualities, and meaning of religious textiles over the past one hundred years.
Yoruba Religious Textiles: Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba by Wolff, Norma H. / African Arts
Thus, current emphases on scripts as an internalization of dichotomous gender norms at the cultural level overlook a vital opportunity to use scripts theory to demonstrate how women and men reflexively make sense of or shift current sexual arrangements and experience disjunctures between enacted practices and actual desires.
Actual versus desired initiation patterns among a sample of college ... by O'Sullivan, Lucia / The Journal of Sex Research
What I am proposing is an investigation of the disjunctures that exist between these spaces and stories, the disjunctures that exist because of emotional desires for intellectual concepts that we have dismantled, deconstructed, dismissed.
The bones of story by Hearne, Betsy / The Horn Book Magazine
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