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de·con·struc·tion
 deconstruction
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- pronunciation:
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struhk
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a literary criticism philosophy, introduced in the 1960s, asserting that because words are defined using other words, the meaning of text has no stable reference and therefore cannot have a fixed meaning.
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| definition 2: |
an analytical examination of something, esp. to reveal inadequacies.
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