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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    (v.) to go backwards, especially (military) to move away from the enemy; to withdraw (n.) a period of withdrawal from society for prayer or meditation a period of group withdrawal for study or instruction under a group leader review (v.) to reassess, inspect, perform a subsequent reading to write a review

  3. Asceticism - Wikipedia

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    Asceticism [a] is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. [3] Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their practices or continue to be part of their society, but typically adopt a frugal lifestyle, characterised by the renunciation of material possessions and physical pleasures, and also spend time fasting while ...

  4. Secession - Wikipedia

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    Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence ). [ 1 ] A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded ...

  5. Irreversible binomial - Wikipedia

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    The expression "macaroni and cheese" is an irreversible binomial.The order of the two keywords of this familiar expression cannot be reversed idiomatically.. In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, [1] frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair [2] is a pair of words used together in fixed order as an idiomatic expression ...

  6. Atomism (social) - Wikipedia

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    Those who criticize the theory of social atomism believe that it neglects the idea of the individual as unique. The sociologist Elizabeth Wolgast asserts that, . From the atomistic standpoint, the individuals who make up a society are interchangeable like molecules in a bucket of water – society a mere aggregate of individuals.

  7. Hikikomori - Wikipedia

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    no apparent physical or mental etiology to account for the social withdrawal symptoms. The psychiatrist Alan Teo first characterized hikikomori in Japan as modern-day hermits, [7] while the literary and communication scholar Flavio Rizzo similarly described hikikomori as "post-modern hermits" whose solitude stems from ancestral desires for ...

  8. Delegitimisation - Wikipedia

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    Delegitimisation is the process of constructing a "categorization of groups into extreme social categories which are ultimately excluded from society". [6] Delegitimisation provides "the moral and the discursive basis to harm the delegitimized group, even in the most inhumane ways". [4]

  9. Disengagement theory - Wikipedia

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    The disengagement theory states that older adults withdraw from personal relationships and society as they age. The disengagement theory of ageing states that "aging is an inevitable, mutual withdrawal or disengagement, resulting in decreased interaction between the aging person and others in the social system he belongs to". [1]