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
V 25 I 15; II 13 mu-na-ni-ib-gí-gí.226.eku from uku by dissimilation of vowels.
From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon
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
It is in direct contradiction to that theory which supposes that each stimulus is followed by dissimilation or break-down of the tissue, reducing its function below par.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
The female name Annabel is a dissimilation of Amabel, whence Mabel.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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