memorialization
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7.7
- noun
- /məˌmɔːrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Formal
- The Holocaust has not stirred as much public debate or memorialization as it has in Germany, Austria, Poland, and other countries.
Examples
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The movement toward memorialization in the landscape is one of the arenas in which this struggle is taking place.
Academic text (2003) -
Prison portraits like Cabarrus's touch on the same themes: innocence, love, and memorialization.
Academic text (2011) -
What, then, to make of this memorialization in Lawrence?
Academic text (2009) -
The only form of agency that seems available to these women is that of selective memorialization.
Academic text (2013) -
First, active memorialization has released the community from remembering its past holistically.
Academic text (2009) -
Lawrence's memorialization is significant in two respects.
Academic text (2009) -
Lawrence has undergone a process of actively forgetting the past through its own memorialization.
Academic text (2009) -
Lawrence memorializes its early violence in an unexpected way, given the precedent of other memorialization efforts throughout the nation and even within Lawrence itself.
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The end of Connelly's novel seems explicitly to envisage a lifetime spent among the ghosts, as a deliberate form of memorialization and atonement.
Academic text (2001) -
The city organized a public ceremony for the memorialization of the heroes who fought in the war.
Synonyms
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6.1
An act that honors people or events, often in a ceremony
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4.7
A formal event to mark or honor a special day
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8.1
Making someone or something remembered forever
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9.5
A formal public ceremony that makes a marriage or other rite official
Making a person, event, or idea seem very important so people remember it
How Permanent
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3.4
69
5.1
- Formal
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7.7
- Formal
40
6.1
718
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
memorialization = memorialize (transparent) = memorial + ize + ation
The noun is formed from the verb 'memorialize', indicating the process or act of creating a memorial.
Etymology
Memorialization comes from memorial and memory, which mean 'remembering', and the ending -ization, which means 'the act of making or doing'. So memorialization is the act of making a memory, such as a ceremony, a monument, or a speech, to keep someone or something remembered.