différanceの英語

語源

From French différance (“deferral”) (coined in this sense by Derrida), from différer (“to defer”); but punning on différence (“difference”).

名詞

différance (uncountable)

1. (literary theory, linguistics) The endless deferral of any ultimate meaning in a word or sentence, owing to the necessity of recourse to a potentially infinite series of other, equally uncertain words or signs.
   • 1980 June 5, Roger Poole, “Roger Poole on the seductions and dangers of structuralism”, in London Review of Books‎, volume 02, number 11, →ISSN:

     This is the final Derridan manoeuvre, the showing up of ‘blind spots’ in a text, or the ‘blindness’ of an author to certain textual ‘différances’ or ‘suppléments’ in his own text, operative though not observed.