dissimilation
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The result has been widespread public furor over crime, cultural dissimilation and fears of terrorism.
The same group of names is affected by dissimilation, i.e. the instinct to avoid the recurrence of the same sound.
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Sometimes dissimilation leads to the disappearance of a consonant, e.g.,
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We have long had the word ‘assimilation’ in our dictionaries; ‘dissimilation’ has not yet found its way into them, but it speedily will.
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As the brain mediates between sensation and motion, so the vascular system is the go-between of the organs of assimilation and the organs of dissimilation.
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