moralization

1. 1.

   indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code

   “his constant moralizing drove me mad”

   Synonymsmoralizingmoralisation

   Broaderphilosophizing

   Narrowerpreachification
2. 2.

   the act of making moral (or more moral)

   “for years she worked toward the moralization of English literature”

   Synonymsmoralisation

   Broaderreform

Other forms of moralization

plural

moralizations·

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 moralization

What does moralization mean?

moralization means "indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moralization?

moralization has 6 syllables: mo-ra-li-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for moralization?

Close synonyms include moralizing, moralisation, moralisation. 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 moralization a common word?

moralization 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.