hauntology
A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural pastA concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.
/hɔːnˈtɒlədʒi/
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.
Origin
Borrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontBorrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontologie (“ontology”); apparently coined by Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx (1993).
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Word family
3 related wordsRelatedspectrality
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable