plagiarization
- noun
- /ˌpleɪdʒəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
- US
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plagio
- She faced allegations of plagiarization after submitting a paper that mirrored another author's work.
Examples
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Furthermore, the character of Jesus, being a literary and astrological hybrid, is most explicitly a plagiarization of the Egyptian Sun-God Horus.
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From the plagiarized model's perspective, plagiarization would seem to be most unfair (at least in Western culture), for, at the very least, the plagiarist made no effort to produce those valued ideas.
Academic text (2002) -
The professor warned the students that any form of plagiarization would result in failing the course.
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Any instance of plagiarization can lead to severe consequences, including academic probation.
Synonyms
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Copying someone else's words or ideas and pretending they are your own
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Making another thing that is the same as the first, for example a photo or someone else's answers
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Copying another person's actions or speech to learn from them
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
plagiarization = plagiarize (transparent) = plagiarize + ation
Standard nominalization of the verb 'plagiarize' forming a noun meaning 'the act or process of plagiarizing', which is directly inferable from the base.
Etymology
Plagiarization comes from the Latin word plagiarius, which meant 'kidnapper'. A helpful image is taking someone's words or ideas like 'kidnapping' them, so plagiarization means copying another person's work and saying it is yours.