narrativize

American  

[nar-uh-tuh-vahyz] / ˈnær ə təˌvaɪz /

verb (used with or without object)

narrativized, narrativizing

1. to communicate (events or experiences) in narrative form, in order to better understand them.

   documentaries that attempt to narrativize the Holocaust.

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Other Word Forms

• narrativization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of narrativize

narrativ(e) + -ize

Example Sentences

Something that you’ve struggled with is the impulse to experience something purely versus the impulse to narrativize it.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023

It’s hard to imagine a team better equipped to narrativize a world-historical moment—even a moment they did not choose.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2022

With no television cameras or commentators to narrativize the relationship between those two small dots, the lone rider and the full event, the vague terrain between them was cultivated instead by the imagination.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

Part of what’s “relatable” about such accounts is that we all behave in ways that are easy for others, or even ourselves, to narrativize.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 10, 2019

Our desire to narrativize history while we’re in the middle of it is understandable, but doomed.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2013