politicalization

English

Etymology

From politicalize +‎ -ation.

Noun

politicalization (countable and uncountable, plural politicalizations)

1. The process or instance of making something political.

   Synonym: politicization

   • 1976 December 18, Jack Peterson, “No 'Closet' Nazi”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 4:

     The Right has been a defender of tradition in order to prevent the destruction of various institutional loyalties and values which have stood as a break on total politicalization. By attacking these institutions and values the Left threatens us all, gay or straight, with totalitarianism.

   • 2004, Eugene Walker Gogol, Raya Dunayevskaya: philosopher of Marxist-Humanism‎^[1]:

     The needed philosophic nucleus which will be leadership, proletarianization, politicalization.