say it: hah-spi-tuh-luh-ZAY-shuhn
hospitalization is a noun meaning "a period of time when you are confined to a hospital". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a period of time when you are confined to a hospital
“now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization”
the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital
“he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization”
insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense
placing in medical care in a hospital
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 hospitalization 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.