intellectualize
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- intellectualise (UK)
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intellectual + -ize
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intellectualize (third-person singular simple present intellectualizes, present participle intellectualizing, simple past and past participle intellectualized) (transitive)
- To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
- 1867, James Russell Lowell, Rousseau and the Sentimentalists:
- Sentiment is intellectualized emotion.
- To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
- (US) To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
- (psychology) To use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences.
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treat in an intellectual manner
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