deactualization

English

Alternative forms

  • deactualisation

Etymology

From de- +‎ actualization.

Noun

deactualization (plural deactualizations)

  1. Making less real or existent.
    • 2011, Jurgen Straub, Jorn Rusen, Dark Traces of the Past: Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking‎[1]:
      This method of actualizing deactualization of what has passed is the only appropriate type of forgetting in cases of severe trauma.

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