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Defusion vs Refusion - What's the difference?

defusion | refusion |

As nouns the difference between defusion and refusion

is that defusion is (psychology) the separation of an emotion-provoking stimulus from the unwanted emotional response as part of a therapeutic process, in the same way as when a bomb is "defused" or defusion can be (proscribed) the act of defusing while refusion is new or repeated melting, as of metals.

defusion

English

Etymology 1

From de-'' and ''fusion'' (in turn from ''fuse'' and ''-ion ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (psychology) The separation of an emotion-provoking stimulus from the unwanted emotional response as part of a therapeutic process, in the same way as when a bomb is "defused".

    • Etymology 2

    From defuse'' (in turn from ''de-'' and ''fuse'') and ''-ion'', apparently by analogy with ''fusion , etc.

    Noun

    (bomb disposal) (-)
  • (proscribed) The act of defusing.
  • *1975 , Peter Wilsher and Rosemary Righter, The Exploding Cities , Quadrangle, New York Times Book Co., ISBN 023396665X, page 13
    • It seemed to us to express the right mixture of urgent concern and bracing responsibility that the middle 1970s require. But as the whole book shows, the megalopolitan time bomb is ticking uncomfortably fast. There is little margin for anyone to take a leisurely defusion course.
  • *1987 , Y. S. Shurakov and L. Nicholas (translators), Vladimir Karpov (author), The Commander , Brassey's, page 228
    • The loss of the collections was immediately reported to General Petrov and he detailed a special team of engineers and mine defusion experts to aid the men of the 164th battalion in their search.
  • *1992 , Scott M. Cutlip, “The invasion of public relations' domain by lawyers and marketers”, section 1, Communication World , International Association of Business Communicators
    • Contrast Exxon's failures with johnson & Johnson's successful defusion of its Tylenol crisis - that response directed by a seasoned public relations officer - Larry Foster.
  • *1999 , Elizabeth Economy and Michel Oksenberg, China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects , Council on Foreign Relations, ISBN 0876092253, page 115
    • China’s long border made land mines an essential and legitimate means of defense, and the costs of converting large stockpiles and its productions lines to meet the three criteria in the revised Protocol II (detectability, self-defusion , and self-destruction) would be enormous.
  • *20C , R. K. Murthi (translator), Salma Zaidi (author), The Prophecies of Nostradamus , Pustak Mahal, Delhi, ISBN 8122304273, page 129
    • The story (as all stories do) ends with the timely interception of the bomb and its defusion .
  • *2002 August 1, Sara Powell, “Nuclear-powered animosities. (Human Rights)”, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , American Educational Trust
    • Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council, argued that the international community... made a fundamental mistake by making its primary objective the defusion of tension rather than trying to settle the issue of Kashmir.
  • *1946 June 29, David B. Parker (editor), A Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki , The Manhattan Engineer District, Kessinger Publishing (2004), ISBN 1419104373, page 27
    • The duration of the heat radiation from the bomb is so short, just a few thousandths of a second, that there is no time for the energy falling on a surface to be dissipated by thermal defusion ; the flash burn is typically a surface effect.

    refusion

    English

    Noun

  • New or repeated melting, as of metals.
  • restoration
    • This doctrine of the refusion of the soul. — Bishop Warbuton.
    (Webster 1913)