Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. the process of establishing a practice as a norm
- n. the process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital
Etymologies
- Derived from institution. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I use the term institutionalization, but what I really want to focus on are what institutionalizes a game.”
“But de-institutionalization is not among the major sources of mass incarceration.”
Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
“I pointed to the provocative chart below a few days ago and was intrigued by the thesis that the prison boom has basically been the flipside of the 60s-era decline in institutionalization of the mentally ill:”
Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
“As such, local militias are best integrated within a longer-term institutionalization plan for such forces.”
The Huffington Post: Sen. Dick Lugar: Cause for Concern in Afghanistan
“Doctors resorted more often to long-term institutionalization and such things as seizure-inducing shock treatments, often performed without anesthesia.”
“You know, intellectually, that bringing her home so quickly after her initial institutionalization, is a gamble, and you assume that the "powers that be" in charge of the institution will only allow that to happen if it is in her best interests.”
“Many eventually require long-term institutionalization or placement in a structured community setting, such as a halfway house or hostel.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“The new ward at Sacred Heart is meant to help bridge the gap between long-term institutionalization and those community programs.”
“About the same number are reported to sustain a brain injury resulting in a loss of consciousness but not severe enough to result in long-term institutionalization (an annual rate of 618 per 100,000 person-years).”
“Consider our schools and what we impose on children from the first moment of "institutionalization" - rules, constraints, expectations, examinations.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘institutionalization’.
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20-Letter BigWords
A list of words that each contain twenty (20) letters, beginning with compartmentalization.
Writers of English fond of concise phrases and apt one-syllable Anglo-Saxon nouns and verbs ...compartmentalization, antiparliamentarians, ultramicroscopically, contradistinguishing, radiotelegraphically, psychopathologically, electrocardiographic, overapprehensiveness, hydrotherapeuticians, neurophysiologically, incomprehensibleness, microminiaturization and 183 more...
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Eight-syllable English Words
A list of eight-syllable English words, beginning with monoubiquitylation.
Please feel free to add your own octosyllabic discoveries.
monoubiquitylation, monoubiquitination, epidemiological, hematopericardium, psychophysiological, encephalomyelitis, palaeopalynology, encephalomyelitic, actuopalynology, paleopalynology, melissopalynology, melitopalynology and 169 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, counterrevolution..., counterrevolutionary, electroencephalogram, electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., institutionalisation, institutionalization and 634 more...
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Miscellaneous
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Organization Theory Vocabulary
Words encountered in OT texts.
ontology, epistemology, positivism, interpretivist ep..., discourse, objectivist, subjectivist, social structure, commodification, interdependence, authority structure, rational-legal au... and 26 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Ten vowels; five of those are the letter "i". Mar 17, 2011