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familialize

familialize verb: to give familial character to.

Verb

familialize (third-person singular simple present familializes, present participle familializing, simple past and past participle familialized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To give familial character to
    • This concept should not be understood as simply defining a part of an individual’s personality, but embraces an enactment and conception of the world which tend to familialize all of our relations to others and to our environment.2015, Jean-Luc Prades, “Sociopsychoanalysis and Psychofamilialism. Getting Away from the Psychologization of the Social”, in Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie, volume 20, number 2, page 213

Antonyms of familialize

Forms of familialize

third-person singular presentfamilializes
present participlefamilializing
past participlefamilialized
pastfamilialized
alternative formfamilialise

Origin of familialize

From familial + -ize.

Words formed from familialize

Questions about familialize

What does familialize mean?
Familialize means to give familial character to.
What part of speech is familialize?
Familialize is a verb.
What is the past tense of familialize?
The past tense of familialize is familialized.

Words near familialize in the dictionary

  1. familial Mediterranean fever
  2. familial Mediterranean fevers
  3. familialism
  4. familialisms
  5. familiality
  6. familialize
  7. familialized
  8. familializes
  9. familializing
  10. familially
  11. familiar

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