anoikism
English
Noun
anoikism (uncountable)
- The splitting up of a town into smaller units
- As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.
- 1918, Allen Brown West, The History of the Chalcidic League, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, page 25
- In one respect conditions were more favorable for the synoikism of Megalopolis than for the anoikism at Olynthos.
Antonyms
- synoikism