declutteringn.
/ˌdiːˈklʌt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌdiˈklədərɪŋ/ 1. The action or practice of removing unnecessary items from an untidy, cramped, or overcrowded place. Also figurative.
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1941 S. Cheney Story of Mod. Art vii. 156 He began, too, the de-cluttering and redesigning of picture galleries.
1977 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. c6/1 More and more designers are preaching decluttering, deaccessioning and thinking big.
1993 Director Aug. 25/1 As many as 25 million middle-ranking executives could be thrown out of work by the end of the nineties as companies across America shed functions and departments in the great de-cluttering.
2012 Green Parent Apr. 41/2 Get children in the habit of decluttering with a one toy in, one toy out rule.
2. The action or process of removing extraneous or unwanted information from a display on an electronic device.
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1977 G. S. Robinson & J. J. Reis in Proc. Workshop on Picture Data Descr. & Managem. (IEEE) 161/2 This feature is potentially useful as a decluttering aid in pattern recognition systems.
1994 Transmission & Distribution Oct. 25/1 All maps are initially displayed using a default scale... On zooming out, decluttering is used to remove text and detail too small to be of use.
2010 InformationWeek 20 Nov. The only way to filter a [Twitter] stream is by creating a display column that follows one of your existing lists. It's useful for quick decluttering.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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