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dehistoricization

dehistoricization noun: the process or result of dehistoricizing.

Noun

dehistoricization (uncountable)

  1. The process or result of dehistoricizing.
    • The website of the Iranian Book House also indicates that nowadays self-help books, which offer the most superficial perception of human personality to their audience, have become the second most popular book genre in Iran. […] Using the mechanisms of dehistoricization, social indifference, and...2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 35, →DOI, page 510 of...

Origin of dehistoricization

From de- + historic + -ization.

Questions about dehistoricization

What does dehistoricization mean?
Dehistoricization means the process or result of dehistoricizing.
What part of speech is dehistoricization?
Dehistoricization is a noun.

Words near dehistoricization in the dictionary

  1. dehiscences
  2. dehiscent
  3. dehiscently
  4. dehisces
  5. dehiscing
  6. dehistoricization
  7. dehistoricize
  8. dehistoricized
  9. dehistoricizes
  10. dehistoricizing
  11. Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia

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