spiritualization

American  

[spir-i-chwuhl-iz-ay-shuhn, spir-i-chwuhl-ahyz-ay-shuhn] / ˌspɪr ɪ tʃwəl ɪzˈeɪ ʃən, ˌspɪr ɪ tʃwəl aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

plural

spiritualizations

1. the act of making something spiritual.

2. the act of investing something, such as a narrative or one of its elements, with a spiritual meaning as opposed to a literal or historical one.

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Other Word Forms

• despiritualization
  noun
• over-spiritualization
  noun
• respiritualization
  noun

Example Sentences

Others are lured in through Instagram, where he posts heady photo carousels on topics like “the story of the spiritualization of capitalism.”

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

It is the spiritualization of his success — what some believe to be a marketing ploy — that has produced an ample amount of eye-rolling.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2014

Simone de Beauvoir carefully weighs the few whose testimony treats old age as a period of spiritualization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Ward links Rilke to Teilhard de Chardin and his conception of man's part in the ultimate goal of evolution�"the spiritualization of the earth."

From Time Magazine Archive

The highest instinct for purity places him who is affected with it in the most extraordinary and dangerous isolation, as a saint: for it is just holiness—the highest spiritualization of the instinct in question.

From Beyond Good and Evil by Zimmern, Helen