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Intellectualisation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of intellectualising. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict wordnet

Etymology

From intellectual + -isation.

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