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academicizing

academicizing is the present participle and gerund of academicize.

Meaning of academicize

Verb

academicize (third-person singular simple present academicizes, present participle academicizing, simple past and past participle academicized)

  1. (transitive) To make academic; to turn or absorb into a formal academic subject.

Questions about academicizing

What is academicizing the present participle and gerund of?
Academicizing is the present participle and gerund of academicize.

Words near academicizing in the dictionary

  1. academicist
  2. academicization
  3. academicize
  4. academicized
  5. academicizes
  6. academicizing
  7. academick
  8. academicked
  9. academicking
  10. academicks
  11. academicness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: academicizing (page history and authors); academicize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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