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familializing

familializing is the present participle of familialize.

Meaning of familialize

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 familializing

Questions about familializing

What is familializing the present participle of?
Familializing is the present participle of familialize.

Words near familializing in the dictionary

  1. familialisms
  2. familiality
  3. familialize
  4. familialized
  5. familializes
  6. familializing
  7. familially
  8. familiar
  9. familiar fraud
  10. familiar frauds
  11. familiar stranger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: familializing (page history and authors); familialize (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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