say it: soh-shuh-li-ZAY-shuhn
socialization is a noun meaning "the action of establishing on a socialist basis". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the action of establishing on a socialist basis
“the socialization of medical services”
the act of meeting for social purposes
“there was too much socialization with the enlisted men”
the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
“the socialization of children to the norms of their culture”
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 socialization 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.