English Explanatory Dictionary

hauntology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.

Pronunciation

/hɔːnˈtɒlədʒi/

Word forms

hauntology

Etymology

Borrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontologie (“ontology”); apparently coined by Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx (1993).

Related words

spectral studies spectrality spectral turn

Derived words

hauntological hauntologist
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