Person A: There are approximately 1010300 words in the entire English language but there is not a single combination of them that describes my urge to hit you with a chair
Person B: Maybe so but there is the word defenestration which literally means “the act to throw someone out a window”.
Person B: Maybe so but there is the word defenestration which literally means “the act to throw someone out a window”.
by NoImNotAttractedToPans December 31, 2019
The act of throwing someone out of a window, otherwise know as every 9th grade English teacher's favorite word. They will often give a demonstration on how it works on the student who doesn't understand after a week.
Student 1: Did you see what happened to Jack?
Student 2:Did the crazy English teacher have to demonstrate defenestration again?
Student 1: Yeah...how did you know?
Student 2: I've experienced the pain of being thrown out of that second story window.
Student 2:Did the crazy English teacher have to demonstrate defenestration again?
Student 1: Yeah...how did you know?
Student 2: I've experienced the pain of being thrown out of that second story window.
by Elpída October 15, 2020
When the Overton Window shifts around people that don't change themselves yet end up under different labels afterwards after being thrown out/defenestrated of the original windowframe.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Changing labels without changing those in question in a way similar to the Red Queen Theory where someone needs to keep running in order to stay in the same spot. The running here would be chasing after the shifting Overton Window.
Overton Defenestration occurs when the window throws you out itself while you do nothing in response to the Overton Window shifting around you.
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
"I was a liberal by the 1990's definition. I guess I still am. My positions haven't changed all that much, but the goalposts have been moved so far that I don't fit in anywhere anymore."
by Devidose July 12, 2021
What happens to a person shortly after they have been defenestrated.
See also "deacceleration trauma" and "concrete poisoning".
See also "deacceleration trauma" and "concrete poisoning".
After Joe took a header out the third-floor window, his face was never the same due to defenestration deformation.
by Fuzzy Dog May 18, 2022
I suffered a sudden case of mental defenestration.
by JazzMusique March 19, 2021