defamiliarisation

Feeling word · 1 style

Familiar things altered until unfamiliar. Proportion and position displaced, crisp edges, mid-low value; cold, without warmth. Of objects, bodies, daily images.

Styles

• New Objectivity

Co-occurs with

• philistinism
• satire
• the uncanny
• frontal
• isolation
• chill allure
• impersonality
• verisimilitude
• high gloss

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