English

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Etymology

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From villanize +‎ -ation.

Noun

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villanization (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The act, or an instance, of villanizing.
    • 1994, Mary M. Hirthe, Memories are made of this: R.W. Fassbinder's BRD-Trilogy as decadent history[1]:
      He effectively balanced his dichotomous view between the extreme of naive idealization of Americans and their culture and villanization of the United States.