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intellectualisation

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun intellectualization, intellectualize.

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  • noun uncountable the act or process of intellectualising
  • noun countable an instance of such a process

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  • noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

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Examples

  • I recall meeting Peter Fonda once; he spent almost an hour telling me that everything he was saying was itself “mere bullshit and intellectualisation after the fact”, quoting Krishnamurti. yaron says:

    jhvh is the enemy of god and man 2009

  • Belief in God, or any particular vision of God was not necessary, indeed, that often only played into the hands of those who deliberately or unwittingly made religion into a distorted human intellectualisation of personal spiritual truth.

    Dr. Thomas Faunce: Letters From Beyond the Age of the Market State #7 2008

  • This is a criticism of ABC that in his intellectualisation he loses sight that people who are the 'misunderstanders' require simple but strong leadership of the Christian Church.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • This is a criticism of ABC that in his intellectualisation he loses sight that people who are the 'misunderstanders' require simple but strong leadership of the Christian Church.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • You could be over-reacting, in your touchy-feely, left-wing, liberal, PC, paranoid over-intellectualisation of the words on the page in front of you.

    Duh, Tell Us About The Rabbits, George Hal Duncan 2005

  • And yet, even with Graphic Design's recent entry to the academy and its supposed intellectualisation as a field of study and research, we seem to be bombarded more and more by designers who believe the purpose of what they do is self-expression, and stake a claim for authorship of the work they produce over and above the true authors, the people who commissioned them.

    Design theory and its critics Jonathan 2004

  • And yet, even with Graphic Design's recent entry to the academy and its supposed intellectualisation as a field of study and research, we seem to be bombarded more and more by designers who believe the purpose of what they do is self-expression, and stake a claim for authorship of the work they produce over and above the true authors, the people who commissioned them.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Jonathan 2004

  • The feeling of these satisfied him entirely, though of course be was incapable of their intellectualisation.

    The Silent Places 1904

  • In the case of monarchy one can also watch the intellectualisation of the whole process by the newspapers, the official biographers, the courtiers, and possibly the monarch himself.

    Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895

  • The intellectualisation of a harmful act is a way of turning "bad" into "good" - the thought process may run thus: "my parents cut off part of my body and despite the fact that I didn't like it, my parents are good - so cutting off part of my body was good - therefore, to be a good parent myself, I must do the same to my son ...".

    Signs of the Times 2010

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