Do have a word that means “lacking meaning/context because displaced” besides “anachronistic”?
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If something is out of place in time, we call it anachronistic. I want a word that means something lacks meaning or context because of geographic or conceptual displacement rather than chronological displacement.
Searches on websites like Stack Exchange have suggested:
anomalous
incongruous
unmeaning
uncromulent
anomalous and incongruous seem wrong to me because they imply something is abnormal. I want to say something is done whose meaning is lost or unknown because of displaced context without implying it is abnormal.
I'm not sure about "unmeaning" or "uncromulent". Anyone have other suggestions? Or can you suggest a neologism formed from a- or an- !
Thanks.
meaning-in-context vocabulary neologisms
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If something is out of place in time, we call it anachronistic. I want a word that means something lacks meaning or context because of geographic or conceptual displacement rather than chronological displacement.
Searches on websites like Stack Exchange have suggested:
anomalous
incongruous
unmeaning
uncromulent
anomalous and incongruous seem wrong to me because they imply something is abnormal. I want to say something is done whose meaning is lost or unknown because of displaced context without implying it is abnormal.
I'm not sure about "unmeaning" or "uncromulent". Anyone have other suggestions? Or can you suggest a neologism formed from a- or an- !
Thanks.
meaning-in-context vocabulary neologisms
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Strange ought to work. But it would help if you added a sample sentence to provide context. This reminds me of the joke about why you cut the ends off of sausages. After young-un asks siss, siss asks mom, mom phones gran, gran says "Are you still using that stupid little pan?"
– Phil Sweet
23 mins ago
Maybe something like uncontextualized? When you first mentioned physical location, I thought of ectopic.
– ralph.m
13 mins ago
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If something is out of place in time, we call it anachronistic. I want a word that means something lacks meaning or context because of geographic or conceptual displacement rather than chronological displacement.
Searches on websites like Stack Exchange have suggested:
anomalous
incongruous
unmeaning
uncromulent
anomalous and incongruous seem wrong to me because they imply something is abnormal. I want to say something is done whose meaning is lost or unknown because of displaced context without implying it is abnormal.
I'm not sure about "unmeaning" or "uncromulent". Anyone have other suggestions? Or can you suggest a neologism formed from a- or an- !
Thanks.
meaning-in-context vocabulary neologisms
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If something is out of place in time, we call it anachronistic. I want a word that means something lacks meaning or context because of geographic or conceptual displacement rather than chronological displacement.
Searches on websites like Stack Exchange have suggested:
anomalous
incongruous
unmeaning
uncromulent
anomalous and incongruous seem wrong to me because they imply something is abnormal. I want to say something is done whose meaning is lost or unknown because of displaced context without implying it is abnormal.
I'm not sure about "unmeaning" or "uncromulent". Anyone have other suggestions? Or can you suggest a neologism formed from a- or an- !
Thanks.
meaning-in-context vocabulary neologisms
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Strange ought to work. But it would help if you added a sample sentence to provide context. This reminds me of the joke about why you cut the ends off of sausages. After young-un asks siss, siss asks mom, mom phones gran, gran says "Are you still using that stupid little pan?"
– Phil Sweet
23 mins ago
Maybe something like uncontextualized? When you first mentioned physical location, I thought of ectopic.
– ralph.m
13 mins ago
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Strange ought to work. But it would help if you added a sample sentence to provide context. This reminds me of the joke about why you cut the ends off of sausages. After young-un asks siss, siss asks mom, mom phones gran, gran says "Are you still using that stupid little pan?"
– Phil Sweet
23 mins ago
Maybe something like uncontextualized? When you first mentioned physical location, I thought of ectopic.
– ralph.m
13 mins ago
Strange ought to work. But it would help if you added a sample sentence to provide context. This reminds me of the joke about why you cut the ends off of sausages. After young-un asks siss, siss asks mom, mom phones gran, gran says "Are you still using that stupid little pan?"
– Phil Sweet
23 mins ago
Strange ought to work. But it would help if you added a sample sentence to provide context. This reminds me of the joke about why you cut the ends off of sausages. After young-un asks siss, siss asks mom, mom phones gran, gran says "Are you still using that stupid little pan?"
– Phil Sweet
23 mins ago
Maybe something like uncontextualized? When you first mentioned physical location, I thought of ectopic.
– ralph.m
13 mins ago
Maybe something like uncontextualized? When you first mentioned physical location, I thought of ectopic.
– ralph.m
13 mins ago
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Strange ought to work. But it would help if you added a sample sentence to provide context. This reminds me of the joke about why you cut the ends off of sausages. After young-un asks siss, siss asks mom, mom phones gran, gran says "Are you still using that stupid little pan?"
– Phil Sweet
23 mins ago
Maybe something like uncontextualized? When you first mentioned physical location, I thought of ectopic.
– ralph.m
13 mins ago