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schismogenetic

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schismogenetic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to schismogenesis.
    • 1984, Deborah Tannen, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, pages 61–62:
      I tried to establish rapport by throwing out everything I could think of associated with the topic: for example, listing the names of Goffman’s books. In typical complementary schismogenetic fashion, this had the effect of overwhelming Chad and intimidating him even more.
    • 2006, Gabriele Marranci, Jihad Beyond Islam, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Berg, →ISBN, page 51:
      Today an increasing number of Muslims feel that Islam, as religion and identity, is under attack. In certain circumstances, this ‘rumour’ traps some Muslims who react to the schismogenetic process with the rhetoric of jihad as a form of an act of identity.
    • 2012, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 210–211:
      In this present-absence of cultural origin and ‘primal’ reference, interculturalism can certainly be regarded as a schismogenetic third space of neither nothing nor being; []