Synonyms of deconstruction

deconstruction

noun

ˌdē-kən-ˈstrək-shən 

as in analysis

the separation and identification of the parts of a whole

a lengthy deconstruction of the president's speech by a panel of pundits

Synonyms & Similar Words

• analysis
• investigation
• inspection
• examination
• dissection
• assessment
• breakdown
• anatomy
• evaluation
• assay
• anatomizing
• diagnosis
• classification
• cataloging
• codification
• categorization
• inventory
• scrutiny
• indexing
• cataloguing
• enumeration
• arrangement
• reduction
• tabulation
• assortment
• subdivision
• segmentation
• muster
• itemization
• separation
• division

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• synthesis
• integration
• consolidation
• unification
• assimilation
• aggregation
• amalgamation
• coalescence
• agglomeration
• conglomeration

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deconstruction

Philly’s 55-23 deconstruction of Washington averaged 44.2 million viewers, marking the NFC’s lowest turnout since the Rams-Saints 2019 title game drew 44.1 million. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Jan. 2025

Its primary responsibility would be technology modernization across federal agencies, rather than the far-reaching regulatory deconstruction first imagined. —James Broughel, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

There’s a police station, a possession, and then a deconstruction of the very genre. —Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025

In the decades that followed, critics, artists, and curators alike began to frame contemporary artworks in relation to more or less every subgenre of contemporary philosophy—deconstruction, poststructuralism, speculative realism, accelerationism, pataphysics, psychogeography. —Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024