disenvelopment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

disenvelop +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

disenvelopment (plural disenvelopments)

  1. The act of disenveloping.
    • 1993, Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, →ISBN, page 347:
      If, therefore, musical language seems to break up and even disperse into always more parceled forms, it is because the analysis truly becomes creative, just as variation is no longer a procedure for developing a theme it would be a matter of enriching, but a principle of disenvelopment through which the totality already virtually present in the choice and in the preparatory work of the series becomes free of itself by giving itself over to a veritably torturing questions -- a question that, through the obstinate return of the identical, as again Adorno makes clear, seeks to engender an unceasing renewal.
    • 2005, May L. Wykle, Peter J. Whitehouse, Diane L. Morris, Successful aging through the life span: intergenerational issues in health, →ISBN:
      In our old age, it grows through disenvelopment.
    • 2012, Edwin H. Lennette, Pekka Halonen, Frederick A. Murphy, Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Principles and Practice, →ISBN:
      In marked contrast, VZV subjected to freezedrying in buffered solutions without sugar consisted mainly of naked nucleocapsids, suggesting that residual moisture retained by the sugar seemed to prevent viral disenvelopment.