What is another word for atomized?

Pronunciation: [ˈatəmˌa͡ɪzd] (IPA)

Atomized is a powerful word that is often used to describe something that has been broken down into its individual parts. Some synonyms for atomized include pulverized, disintegrated, dismembered, fragmented, and shattered. Each of these words conveys a sense of destruction or decomposition, indicating that something that was once whole has been broken into smaller, more manageable pieces. Atomized is often used in the context of science, particularly in relation to chemical reactions or the study of atoms and molecules. However, it can also be used in a more metaphorical sense, to describe the breakdown of a relationship or idea.

What are the hypernyms for Atomized?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Atomized

Some drug, atomized through a keyhole, which puts y' t' by-by."
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
The hardly self-conscious meanings within her bosom made as if an extension of her in the air, comparable to the halo around the moon on a misty night; and this atomized radiance had language, it said: "Oh, to draw your head down where it desires to be!
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
What'll happen to these people on this planet, after we're atomized?
"Uller Uprising"
Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr

Famous quotes with Atomized

  • ... the stupefying effect spectator sports have in making people passive, atomized, obedient nonparticipants—nonquestioning, easily controlled and easily disciplined
    Noam Chomsky
  • “Travel in the old ruts,” quotes my friend Meredith; some ancient Chinese maxim. The way lain down by elders. Pathways through the world, pathways through the mind—it’s a shame that these days we so seldom have a guide. That our atomized worldview, mimicking scientific doctrine, sees us as separate, distinct, alone, orbiting in space, touching only an infinite void.
    Russell Brand
  • I believe natural instincts “go awry”; what was I really seeking when scoring and using heroin? Heroin is an opiate; opiates are painkillers. I was in spiritual pain. I have come to believe that the reason I was using drugs was to treat a spiritual malady. A flailing, disconnected tendril searching for connection and, failing to find it, I had to be sedated. When I began my life in abstinence-based recovery, living one day at a time without the use of drugs and alcohol, the impulse that drove me to seek out oblivion remained. I believe it is the impulse for union that is denied by our atomized and secular culture.
    Russell Brand
  • The emergence of something called Metafiction in the American '60s was hailed by academic critics as a radical aesthetic, a whole new literary form, literature unshackled from the cultural cinctures of mimetic narrative and free to plunge into reflexivity and self-conscious meditations on aboutness. Radical it may have been, but thinking that postmodern Metafiction evolved unconscious of prior changes in readerly taste is about as innocent as thinking that all those college students we saw on television protesting the Vietnam war were protesting only because they hated the Vietnam war (They may have hated the war, but they also wanted to be seen protesting on television. TV was where they'd the war, after all. Why wouldn't they go about hating it on the very medium that made their hate possible?) Metafictionists may have had aesthetic theories out the bazoo, but they were also sentient citizens of a community that was exchanging an old idea of itself as a nation of do-ers and be-ers for a new vision of the U.S.A. as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers. For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own theoritcal nemesis, Realism: if Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing it. This high-cultural postmodern genre, in other words, was deeply informed by the emergence of television and the metastasis of self-conscious watching.
    David Foster Wallace
  • Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.
    Daniel Pipes

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