erasure.
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
Meaning & usage
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
The state of having been erased; total blankness.
The place where something has been erased.
There were several erasures on the paper.
A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Italic *razdō Latin radō Latin ērādō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra English erasure Pseudo-Latinism, derived from ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra (“abstract noun suffix”), equivalent to erase + -ure.
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