Intellectualization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of intellectualizing. countable, uncountable

    "To me, part of the power of dealing with images is that they can bypass the intellectualization process, they can go right to making you feel something."

  2. 2
    (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict wordnet

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brainworkconceitconceptionheadworkideaideation

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"By machine translation supplemented by human editing, many books from other languages could be translated into Tagalog, thereby aiding in the intellectualization of the language."

Etymology

From intellectual + -ization or intellectualize + -ation.

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