dissimilation
Example Sentences
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The result has been widespread public furor over crime, cultural dissimilation and fears of terrorism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2016
Sometimes dissimilation leads to the disappearance of a consonant, e.g.,
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The female name Annabel is a dissimilation of Amabel, whence Mabel.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Old Fr. livel became by dissimilation nivel, now niveau.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
There is also separation and aggregation, assimilation and dissimilation, increase, diminution, equalization, a passage from motion to rest, and from rest to motion in the one and many.
From Parmenides by Benjamin Jowett
