anatomization
- noun
- /əˌnætəˈmaɪzeɪʃən/
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anatomización
- His anatomization of the novel's themes helped the students better understand the author's message.
Examples
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The scientist's anatomization of the complex cell structure revealed new insights into its function.
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The bodies behind the painted eyes, however, receive less attention in contemporary criticism, yet Field's careful anatomization of bodies in the poems suggests that they might warrant a closer look.
Academic text (2016) -
But these clever, libidinous, disputatious men are not always as sympathetic as they are intended to be, and their dexterous anatomization of lower-middle-class Jewish life as it was might make it seem uglier and more graceless than it could possibly have been.
Academic text (2010) -
The documentary includes a detailed anatomization of the economic factors contributing to the crisis.
Synonyms
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3.4
Careful study of something by breaking it into parts to understand
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6.3
Cutting an animal or plant open to study its inside parts
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5.5
A detailed study of the parts of something and how they work
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7.6
A way of studying something by breaking it into parts
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7.4
Splitting a math object into simpler parts to study it
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7.9
Breaking a whole into smaller separate parts
A careful study of something in detail to understand it
To break something into clear parts to make it easier to study
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anatomization comes from Greek parts ana- and tome, which together mean 'cutting up' or 'cutting open' and also give us the familiar word anatomy. So an anatomization is like 'cutting' something into parts to study each part, which is why it means analyzing something in detail.