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名詞

erasure (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 erasures)

1. The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 7, [1]

     The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

2. The state of having been erased; total blankness.
   • 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:

     Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.

3. The place where something has been erased.

   There were several erasures on the paper.

4. (sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

   bisexual erasure

同意語

• (action of erasing): cancelation (米国用法), cancellation (英国用法), canceling (米国用法), cancelling (英国用法), deleting, deletion, erasing, obliterating, obliteration, wiping
• (state of having been erased): blankness

下位語

• type erasure