intellectualization
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9.9
- noun
- /ˌɪntəˌlɛkʧuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- Many people engage in intellectualization to avoid dealing with their emotions during times of stress.
- intellectualization and reaction formation
- intellectualization and reaction
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Watch on YouTubeAnother form that invalidation can take is through intellectualization.
- Another form that invalidation can take is through intellectualization.
Examples
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Well, philosophy, intellectualization is something that has such great value if we have the capacity for that.
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There is no reason to group such a response with intellectualization at all.
Academic text (1998) -
Instead of religion, I chose education with its sanction of upward mobility and intellectualization, the only transcendence I believed in.
Fiction book (2000) -
Venkat's blog is an echo of the intellectualization of the subject, which is culturally a very recent phenomenon.
Blog text (1) -
Clearly, this lies at the base of denial, the unwillingness to acknowledge our problems or to face them; projection, in which we place the blame on others instead of looking within; and intellectualization, in which we just talk about these things in abstract ways.
Academic text (1991) -
These tasks tend to lower anxiety, move the client past inclinations toward intellectualization, and stimulate emotional processing (Dallen, 1986).
Academic text (2001) -
Feelings have gradually replaced intellectualization as we find the issues critical to our professional performance to be related more to our own marital discords, fears of death, failure to live up to our own goals as parents and individuals, and feelings of incompetence or uncertain self-esteem.
Academic text (2001) -
One of the hallmarks of this system has been its leaders' commitment to the modernization of Islamic studies or, as Dhofier calls it, to its "intellectualization" through a conscious embrace of both Western and Islamic intellectual traditions.
Academic text (2015) -
In therapy, the intellectualization of feelings can prevent genuine emotional connections from forming.
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The author's intellectualization of trauma allowed her to analyze her experiences without confronting the pain directly.
Synonyms
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7.2
Saying a reasonable reason for actions that may not be true
How Avoidant
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- Specialized
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9.9
- Specialized
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7.2
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Surface Forms
Morphology
intellectualization = intellectualize (semi-transparent) = intellect + ual + ize + ation
Forming the noun from the verb with '-ation' is a regular and predictable suffixation.
Etymology
Intellectualization comes from intellect, meaning 'mind' or 'thinking', plus the ending -ization, meaning 'the act of making or using'. So intellectualization is using thinking or reason to avoid dealing with strong feelings.