intellectualization

1. 1.

   (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

   Synonymsintellectualisation

   Broaderdefense mechanism

   psychiatry

Other forms of intellectualization

plural

intellectualizations·

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.

Questions about intellectualization

What does intellectualization mean?

intellectualization means "(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict".

How many syllables are in intellectualization?

intellectualization has 9 syllables: in-tel-lec-tu-a-li-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for intellectualization?

Close synonyms include intellectualisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intellectualization a common word?

intellectualization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.