English edit

Etymology edit

ignorance +‎ -ization

Noun edit

ignorization (uncountable)

  1. (nonce word) The act of ignorizing.
    • 1989, Andrew T. Scull, Social Order/mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective:
      [] (in the words of one eminent psychiatrist, "'laymanization' was synonymous with 'ignorization'”).
    • 1994, Hanna Scolnicov, Woman's Theatrical Space, page 73:
      Now that Agnes is seventeen and her education, or ignorization, has been concluded to his satisfaction, Arnolphe intends to wed her.
    • 2005 Autumn, Yamila Hussein, “The Stone and the Pen: Palestinian Education During the 1987 intifada”, in The Radical Teacher, volume 74:
      As Palestinians saw it, at issue was a policy of ignorization which aimed at destroying their cultures academic capacities.