vulgarization
Americannoun
plural
vulgarizations-
the process or result of making something vulgar or coarse.
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the process or result of popularizing difficult or highly technical content, making it more accessible to ordinary people.
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the process or result of translating something into the vernacular.
Example Sentences
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Tubes’ exquisite vulgarization metaphor joke: it gets around FCC.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022
A bland vulgarization that waters down the high and flattens out the low, middlebrow was an art of homogeneous mush.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2018
The British press was pretty snooty about what they saw as Byrd’s vulgarization and commercialization of Antarctica.
From National Geographic • Jan. 13, 2018
Baseball, by contrast, was seen by most cricket lovers as a vulgarization of the true bat-and-ball game, cricket, that Rudyard Kipling said defined what it was to be properly English.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2010
The very vulgarization of letters indeed, the broadsheets and pamphlets and catchpenny magazines of Grub Street, were doing for the mass of the people a work which greater writers could hardly have done.
From History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by Green, John Richard
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