intellectualize
verb (used with object)
to seek or consider the rational content or form of.
intellectualization
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a word derived from
intellectualize.
Example Sentences
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All this might sound a little like what Anna Freud called intellectualization, a cardinal defense mechanism, and I’m OK with that.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020
Based on "my" own experiences, intellectualization is itself emergent from more primitive conscious states that can only be comprehended intellectually after-the-fact.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
Brzezinski’s work transcends intellectualization or interpretation, and this kind of art often flummoxes critics.
From Washington Post
This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the growing process of intellectualization and rationalization does not imply a growing understanding of the conditions under which we live.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
