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Definition of Intellectualisation

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

Definition of Intellectualisation

1. Noun. the act or process of intellectualising ¹

2. Noun. an instance of such a process ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Intellectualisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What to Teach, and how to Teach It. So that the Child May Become a Wise and by Henry Mayhew (1842)
"I NOW proceed to explain, first, what, in my opinion, constitutes the intellectualisation of a being ; and, secondly, how that intellectualisation is to be ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1901)
"If by careful intellectual training of the nature we have been attempting to indicate," the aspirant " can place himself, his intellectualisation, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"... to the intellectualisation of the senses, we shall then begin to understand what the training of the mind in the future must be—of how little importance ..."

4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"Thus all things are compressed and riveted together in a colossal intellectualisation of matter, the whole broad scope of life is cast in one mould. ..."

5. The Esthetic Basis of Greek Art of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. by Rhys Carpenter (1921)
"There is the same scrutiny of individual forms, the same indifference to the merely optically correct, the same intellectualisation and artistic rethinking ..."

6. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1907)
"The intellectualisation of the town operatives (assuming the process to be taking place) may be attributable to the thousand and one other influences of ..."

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