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radicalization

radicalization noun: the process of radicalizing.

Noun

radicalization (countable and uncountable, plural radicalizations)

  1. The process of radicalizing.
    • This remark, it is true, belongs to a time when Engels was himself connected with the Young Hegelians […] nevertheless, it is typical of the hopes that were cherished in the early stages for a radicalization of the master's system.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
    • From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page

radicalization meaning in Bengali and Vietnamese

radicalization in Bengali

মৌলবাদীকরণ

radicalization in Vietnamese

the process or result of radicalizing
sự cực đoan hoá

Forms of radicalization

pluralradicalizations
alternative formradicalisation

Origin of radicalization

From radical + -ization.

Words formed from radicalization

Questions about radicalization

What does radicalization mean?
Radicalization means the process of radicalizing.
What is radicalization in Bengali?
Radicalization in Bengali is মৌলবাদীকরণ. See Radicalization meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is radicalization?
Radicalization is a noun.
What is the plural of radicalization?
The plural of radicalization is radicalizations.

Words near radicalization in the dictionary

  1. radicalistically
  2. radicalists
  3. radicalities
  4. radicality
  5. radicalizable
  6. radicalization
  7. radicalizations
  8. radicalize
  9. radicalized
  10. radicalizer
  11. radicalizers

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