dissimilation

The result has been widespread public furor over crime, cultural dissimilation and fears of terrorism.

Instead, therefore, of using torture, they employed craft; and though Garnet was an adept in the art of dissimilation, yet he was outwitted on this occasion.

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

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.

We have long had the word ‘assimilation’ in our dictionaries; ‘dissimilation’ has not yet found its way into them, but it speedily will.