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- noun All the
shared body ofknowledge which is not explicitly used when peoplecommunicate , but without which communication would be impossible
Etymologies
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Danish eksformation, or from explicitly discarded information
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Both depend on what communication theorists sometimes call "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.
Brit Lit Blogs 2008
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Here Wallace wrote on everything from "exformation" to pornography to the 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain.
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