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Meaning of "bisociation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BISOCIATION

bisociation  [ˌbaɪˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BISOCIATION

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bisociation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BISOCIATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

The Act of Creation

The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts. It lays out Koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativity. From describing and comparing many different examples of invention and discovery, Koestler concludes that they all share a common pattern which he terms "bisociation" – a blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated matrices of thought into a new matrix of meaning by way of a process involving comparison, abstraction and categorisation, analogies and metaphors. He regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison, as special cases of "bisociation". The concept of bisociation has been adopted, generalised and formalised by cognitive linguists Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, who developed it into conceptual blending theory.

Definition of bisociation in the English dictionary

The definition of bisociation in the dictionary is the association of one idea with two different contexts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BISOCIATION


abbreviation
əˌbriːvɪˈeɪʃən
affiliation
əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən
appreciation
əˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
association
əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən
aviation
ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən
depreciation
dɪˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
deviation
ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃən
differentiation
ˌdɪfəˌrɛnʃɪˈeɪʃən
humiliation
hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪʃən
initiation
ɪˌnɪʃɪˈeɪʃən
irradiation
ɪˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən
mediation
ˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən
negotiation
nɪˌɡəʊʃɪˈeɪʃən
pronunciation
prəˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən
radiation
ˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən
Reconciliation
ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
remediation
rɪˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən
retaliation
rɪˌtælɪˈeɪʃən
variation
ˌvɛərɪˈeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BISOCIATION

bismuth
bismuth glance
bismuthal
bismuthic
bismuthinite
bismuthous
bisnaga
bisociative
bison
bisontine
bisphosphonate
bisque
Bissau
bissextile
bisson
bist
bistable
bistate

WORDS THAT END LIKE BISOCIATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation
federation

Synonyms and antonyms of bisociation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «bisociation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BISOCIATION

Find out the translation of bisociation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bisociation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bisociation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

bisociation
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bisociación
570 millions of speakers

English

bisociation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bisociation
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

bisociation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

bisociation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bisociation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bisociation
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bisociation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Biskop
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bisoziation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bisociation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bisociation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bisociation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bisociation
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

bisociation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बिजिओशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bisociation
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bisociazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bisociation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

bisociation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bisociation
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

bisociation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bisociation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bisociation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bisociation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bisociation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BISOCIATION»

The term «bisociation» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.819 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BISOCIATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bisociation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BISOCIATION»

Discover the use of bisociation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bisociation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Linguistic Theories of Humor
5.1.1 Bisociation Theories The bisociation theories have their origin in Koestler's book (1964) about creativity. Koestler's bisociation theory has been very influential. For example, Douglas (1968), Noguez (1969), Milner (1972), Johnson (1976) ...
Salvatore Attardo, 1994
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The Mind's Best Work
One way to consider that question is to ask just what Koestler's concept of bisociation clarifies about the "act of creation." For instance, we might take Koestler to have named and characterized a distinctive psychological process called ...
David N. PERKINS, David N Perkins, 2009
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Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis X: 10th International ...
Defining bisociation formally is, of course, a challenge. An extensive overview of related work, links to computational creativity and related areas in AI as well as a more thorough formalization can be found in [3]. Here we will only concentrate ...
João Gama, Elizabeth Bradley, Jaakko Hollmen, 2011
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Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual ...
Bisociation Before going into further detail about Arthur Koestler's work, we would like to add that The Act of Creation is a rich philosophical and psychological reference that encompasses ideas that are still currently accepted and explored,  ...
Francisco Câmara Pereira, 2007
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The Economics of Innovation: An Introduction
BISOCIATION. The creativity literature sees combination and reorganisation as fimdamental to the process of creative thought. People create new knowledge or ideas by combining and reorganising existing concepts or categories. This has ...
G. M. P. Swann, 2009
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Milieus of Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach to ...
time (i.e., the exploratory appetance behavior expounded by ethologists) before the respective bisociation will really fuse. The researcher or thinker searches for ways to state a problem clearly and precisely, to find a clear leading question, ...
Peter Meusburger, Joachim Funke, Edgar Wunder, 2009
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Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX: 9th International ...
Since the core notion of our efforts is bisociation, we start by trying to provide a sufficiently clear definition, which can guide us in our attempts to create a system able to support a user in finding bisociations. A first definition within the BISON ...
Paul R. Cohen, Niall M. Adams, Michael R. Berthold, 2010
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No Experience Necessary Writer's Course
THE TERM “BISOCIATION” was coined by Arthur Koestler in his wonderful book The Act of Creation. It refers to the bringing together of two ideas or forces that would not normally be associated. Bisociation can result in strong images, ideas,  ...
Scott Edelstein, 1994
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Handbook of Management and Creativity
Koestler's notion of bisociation, the theoretical underpinning of the handbook, argues that the creative mind brings together two habitually disconnected frames of reference. But, interestingly, Koestler acknowledged that bisociation works ...
Chris Bilton, Stephen Cummings, 2014
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Centrality and Cities
entertaining, with an endeavour to understand the act of creation via the idea of bisociation, and incidentally beginning with about the best explanation of humour that I have come across. (Curiously enough, E.H. Gombrich (1961, 3,5;also395) ...
James Bird, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BISOCIATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bisociation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Who Designed The Rainbow-Colored LGBT Flag?
In 1976, a young man named Gilbert Baker conducted that great creative act of “bisociation,” bringing two unrelated concepts together into ... «malaysiandigest.com, Jun 15»
2
Things We Learned at the Toronto Screenwriting Conference
This is what is known as bisociation. To do it believably is the trick, because our mind naturally rejects the joining of these two paradoxes. «Live in Limbo, Apr 15»
3
Screenwriters return home to rewrite
“I'm a big believer in bisociation,” Prasad said, “This idea that creative breakthroughs come from putting two things that don't necessarily belong ... «The Michigan Daily, Mar 15»
4
Ode to Thierry Henry: Celebrating the Career of a “Genius”
... in overlapping neurological structures (the bisociation of implicit divergent thinking and explicit “worldview”). Like the sportsperson, the artist ... «Think Football, Dec 14»
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Bottoms-up: Vertica co-founders unveil next big thing in data curation
Bisociation and New Yorker cartoons. Gartner's top 10 technologies and trends for 2015. If data is the new oil, does it need a refinery? «TechTarget, Oct 14»
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Hadoop fades, the science of cartoons and the value of teamwork
Mankoff, a self-described technophile, said successful captions often contain bisociation, the combining of two seemingly unrelated ideas. "Arthur Koestler, who ... «TechTarget, Oct 14»
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Advertisers Trick Your Brain by Turning Adjectives into Nouns
Puns are a classic case of bisociation: The humor comes from jumping from one meaning to the other. Metaphors bisociate between two things ... «Slate Magazine, May 14»
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How advertisers trick your brain by turning adjectives into nouns
What is bisociation? It's an idea given a name by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation: You have two things operating on two different planes ... «The Week Magazine, May 14»
9
A herstory (or mansplanation) of portpersonteau words
When we make words like bromance and Galentine, we're doing what novelist Arthur Koestler called bisociation: making an "aha!" between ... «The Week Magazine, Feb 13»
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Works in progress
They find an answer in the notion of "bisociation" developed by Koestler: "This term described the blending of elements from two previously ... «The Australian, Sep 12»

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