disidentification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ identification

Noun[edit]

disidentification (countable and uncountable, plural disidentifications)

  1. The act of disidentifying, or rejecting a personal or group identity.
    • 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
      Nixon, Cypher, and Heche are all proponents of gay rights and have expressed no shame about or disidentification from their same-sex relationships.
    • 2020 [2019], Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 99:
      The same applies to the tempestuous rows within internet communities, where toxic pulsions of identification and disidentification generate passionate solidarities and sudden explosions of hostilities.