Meaning of defusion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of defusing.
   proscribed, uncountable
2. The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
   countable, neologism, uncountable

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Examples

“It seemed to us to express⟳ the right mixture of urgent concern⟳ and bracing responsibility that the middle 1970s require⟳. But as the whole book shows, the megalopolitan time bomb is ticking uncomfortably fast. There is little margin for anyone to take⟳ a leisurely defusion course.”

“The loss of the collections was immediately reported to General Petrov and he detailed a special team of engineers and mine defusion experts to aid the men of the 164th battalion in their search⟳.”

“1992, Scott M. Cutlip, “The invasion of public relations' domain by lawyers and marketers”, section 1, Communication World, International Association of Business Communicators Contrast Exxon's failures with Johnson & Johnson's successful defusion of its Tylenol crisis - that response directed by a seasoned public relations officer - Larry Foster.”

“China’s long border⟳ made land⟳ mines an essential and legitimate means of defense, and the costs of converting large stockpiles and its productions lines to meet⟳ the three criteria in the revised Protocol II (detectability, self-defusion, and self-destruction) would be enormous.”

“The story (as all stories do) ends with the timely interception of the bomb and its defusion.”

“2002 August 1, Sara Powell, “Nuclear-powered animosities. (Human Rights)”, Washington Report⟳ on Middle East Affairs, American Educational Trust⟳ Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council, argued that the international community...made a fundamental mistake⟳ by making its primary objective the defusion of tension rather than trying to settle⟳ the issue⟳ of Kashmir.”

“[…] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct⟳ functions of these events.”

“The duration of the heat radiation from the bomb is so short, just a few thousandths of a second, that there is no time for the energy falling on a surface to be dissipated by thermal defusion; the flash⟳ burn is typically a surface effect.”

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