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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

Etymology

From intellectual + -ization or intellectualize + -ation.

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