culturalize

English

Alternative forms

• culturalise

Etymology

cultural +‎ -ize

Verb

culturalize (third-person singular simple present culturalizes, present participle culturalizing, simple past and past participle culturalized)

1. (transitive) To adapt to the norms of a particular culture.
   • 1964, Francisco Romero, Theory of Man, page 100:

     Knowing is the only human activity that does not culturalize the object to which it refers. It is inherent to pure knowing not to alter its object but rather inquire into it faithfully […]

Related terms

• culturalization
• deculturalize
• reculturalize