evocation

See also: évocation

English

Etymology

From Middle French évocation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

evocation (countable and uncountable, plural evocations)

1. The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
   • 1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12:

     Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled.

   • 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 10:

     a stunningly atmospheric evocation of urban ennui

Derived terms

• evocationism

Related terms

• evoke
• invocation

Translations

act of calling out

Finnish: herättäminen (fi), kutsuminen (fi), mielleyhtymä (fi) French: évocation (fr) f German: Beschwörung (de) f Greek: κλήση (el) f (klísi) Hindi: आह्वान m (āhvān) Italian: evocazione (it) f Portuguese: evocação f Spanish: evocación (es) f Swedish: frammanande (sv) n, framkallande (sv) n, frambesvärjande (sv) n