Traumascape
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A landscape, real or figurative, defined by the traumatic events that have occurred there.
"New York's latest traumascape was a site every bit as extraordinary as its counterpart in Stalinist Moscow. Not simply a monstrous and spectacular eyesore, it was a place of immense power, a vortex sucking everything into itself."
Example
More examples"New York's latest traumascape was a site every bit as extraordinary as its counterpart in Stalinist Moscow. Not simply a monstrous and spectacular eyesore, it was a place of immense power, a vortex sucking everything into itself."
Etymology
From trauma + -scape, coined by Maria M. Tumarkin.
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