[
UK
/ɐtˌɒmaɪzˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- annihilation by reducing something to atoms
- separating something into fine particles
How To Use atomisation In A Sentence
- With the increasing atomisation of society into isolation through modern technology, to work in a room full of others, sitting with their stories too, can be far more spiritually enriching. Lily Bevan: Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way
- The 1930's work is excellent - a precise anatomisation of English building styles, with the aim of making the English actually think about their environment.
- More and more of us relish the freedom of living alone but this atomisation has worrying long-term effects for society, says David Willetts
- And far from therapy providing the solution to atomisation, it only fuels this destructive trend, pushing people further away from their nearest and dearest.
- Nothing that has happened since that day has altered the mood of atomisation and political alienation within our societies, or galvanised public support for politics and government.
- In practice, these industrial laws are systematically designed to increase the atomisation - and thereby reduce the power - of working people.
- Signs of this characteristic duality, the coexistence of civil atomisation and popular inflammability, can be found in the deep structures of much French thought.
- atomisation" of society, breaking down natural bonds of duty and responsibility between individuals and replacing them with a reliance on the state. The Guardian World News
- There is a growing sense of atomisation and alienation in the West.
- Theoretically, at least, it could be argued that this would result in what we might call the atomisation of a whole variety of things, including responses to social process. Address at the Opening Of The 9th International Anti-Corruption Conference