/words/inframince/comments Comments for the word 'Inframince' http://www.wordnik.com/ /words/inframince/comments Also known as <a href="/words/infrathin">infrathin</a>.<br /><br />"Duchamp’s term for the all but imperceptible difference between two seemingly identical items was, a term closely linked to what Duchamp also called <a href="/words/deferral">deferral</a> or <a href="/words/delay">delay</a>... Indeed, infrathin, Duchamp declared, cannot be defined, ‘One can only give examples of it.’" (From inframince.net)<br /><br />"Aesthetic concept developed by Marcel Duchamp for whom it generally characterised a thickness ("<a href="/words/épaisseur">épaisseur</a>"), a separation, a difference, an interval between two things, in general little perceptible. The inframince qualifies a distance or a difference that you cannot perceive, but that you can only imagine. The best example of it, is the "inframince separation between the bang of a gun (very near) and the mark of appearance of the mark of the bullet on the target". (From here) Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:44:45 -0700 /words/inframince/comments