evocation

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English

Etymology

From Middle French évocation.

Pronunciation

Noun

evocation (countable and uncountable, plural evocations)

  1. The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
    • 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 10:
      a stunningly atmospheric evocation of urban ennui

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