essentialize
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essentialize (third-person singular simple present essentializes, present participle essentializing, simple past and past participle essentialized)
- (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence.
- (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
- 2007 July 21, Neela Banerjee, “Camp Joins Summer Fun With Teaching Hindu Faith”, in New York Times[1]:
- “This is an essentializing of Hinduism,” Ms. Narayanan said, “and the diversity of Hinduism in India is lost here.”
- (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).
- to essentialize race by stereotyping "what Whites do" or "how Blacks think"
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to reduce to its essence
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