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say it: FAWR-muh-luh-zay-shuhn
formalization is a noun meaning "the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions)". It is pronounced /ˈfɔɹmələˌzeɪʃən/ — FAWR-muh-luh-zay-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for formalization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.