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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

becoming

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Source Word

becoming

IPA(Pronunciation)

/bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/

Noun

uncountable usually

(chiefly philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.

Japanese Meaning

（主に哲学）何かがある状態に変化する過程、すなわち生成または成立のプロセスを指す

What is this buttons?

In her paper, the philosopher argued that becoming is the primary ontological category explaining how identities form over time.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女の論文で、その哲学者は、生成過程がアイデンティティが時間をかけて形成される仕組みを説明する主要な存在論的カテゴリーであると主張した。

Sense（1）

(chiefly philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.

By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

becomings

（ plural ）

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