weirding
noun1
Uncommon The process of becoming weird.
- The weirding of English has been an ongoing phenomenon throughout history.2004, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Weird English, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
- The Anthropocene is about global weirding—the weirding of a natural world that can no longer be separated from human interference, but also the weirding of human existence that has become a “geological force,” beyond control and intention.2020, Gabriele Dürbeck, Philip Hüpkes, editors, The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age, Routledge, →ISBN:
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- There is no better example of such a phenomenon as the infamous moment when Bob Dylan was proclaimed a ‘judas’ for going electric. Such an invasion might be read as a weirding of dominant culture.2023, Richard Perks, John McGrath, editors, 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 192:
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- global weirding