dissimilation

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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

The modified or positive response in nerve is thus held to be due to assimilation; after continuous stimulation, this process is supposed to be transformed into one of dissimilation, with the attendant negative response.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir

A number of occupative names have lost the last syllable by dissimilation, e.g.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Sometimes dissimilation leads to the disappearance of a consonant, e.g.,

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

The triumph of the form belfry is due to association with bell, but the l is originally due to dissimilation, since we find belfroi also in Old French.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest