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⚖️ To make less absolute 💻 To make path relative
to relativize

to relativize

1 8.8
To see something as not fixed but depending on other things
  • verb
  • /ˈrɛlətɪvaɪz/
: relativizar
  • In order to understand history better, we must relativize events, viewing them in the context of their time.
  • relativize truth
  • attempt to relativize
  • relativize claims

These are not concepts that we just relativize or say, well, we go beyond them because that would actually be evil.

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Examples

  • Philosophers often encourage us to relativize our beliefs by comparing them to different cultural perspectives.

  • The teacher asked the students to relativize their opinions by considering alternative viewpoints on the issue.

  • These are not concepts that we just relativize or say, well, we go beyond them because that would actually be evil.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • And in this way, it becomes relativized as evil.

    Academic text (1993)

  • A symbolic interactionist will relativize the symbol to the present needs of the social group.

    Academic text (2005)

  • But then, the great philosopher himself is no antirational oracle; he simply calls us to relativize our natural knowledge.

    Academic text (2007)

  • How does Shweder relativize the pretensions of general psychology to the universal?

    Academic text (1992)

  • The perennialist model marginalizes and relativizes that which is specific to any tradition.

    Blog text (21)

  • Another approach to binaries as grand as Asia/America is to relativize the conceptual problems they pose.

    Academic text (2000)

  • In framing the students' observations, the schema relativizes them, as we see in the following example:

    Academic text (1998)

Antonyms

to absolutize
1 9.6

To treat something as having no limits or exceptions

Surface Forms

relativize infinitive
relativized past
relativized past participle
relativizing present participle
relativizes third person singular

Morphology

relativize = relative (transparent) = relative + ize

Clear derivation by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'relative', meaning 'to make relative'.

Etymology

Relativize comes from relative, which means 'seen in relation to something else', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make or treat'. So to relativize something is to treat it as relative — to compare it with other things rather than see it as absolute.