secularization

1. 1.

   the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion

   Synonymssecularisation

   Broaderchange
2. 2.

   transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession

   Synonymssecularisation

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Other forms of secularization

plural

secularizations·

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 secularization

What does secularization mean?

secularization means "the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secularization?

secularization has 7 syllables: se-cu-la-ri-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for secularization?

Close synonyms include secularisation, secularisation. 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 secularization a common word?

secularization 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.