epiphenomenalizing

Verb

epiphenomenalize (third-person singular simple present epiphenomenalizes, present participle epiphenomenalizing, simple past and past participle epiphenomenalized)

1. To regard as epiphenomenal
   • The other venue from which environmental issues have been most explored by those interested in discursive formations—cultural studies—has tended to epiphenomenalize the physical environment by conceiving it as a social construct and thus as a symptomatic register of political or economic power, or...1998, Lawrence Buell, “Toxic Discourse”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 24, number 3, →DOI, pages 640–641