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Meaning of Unsettling | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

The weakening of some previously established system or norm.

Equivalents

العربية الزعزعة
Català inquietant
Deutsch beunruhigend
Suomi ahdistava
Magyar felkavaró
日本語 攪乱
Русский тревожащий

Examples

“But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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