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Deconstruction vs Deconstructionism - What's the difference?

deconstruction | deconstructionism |

As nouns the difference between deconstruction and deconstructionism

is that deconstruction is deconstruction while deconstructionism is the belief in, or application of, deconstruction.

deconstruction

English

Noun

(wikipedia deconstruction) (en noun)
  • a philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis
  • The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.

    • Related terms

    * deconstruct

    deconstructionism

    English

    Noun

  • The belief in, or application of, deconstruction .
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    • , passage=Once he had decided to major in English, “since it sounded like something I might already know,” he learned to enjoy tossing the vocabulary of deconstructionism back at his teachers. }}