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WASPization

WASPization noun: the process of making or becoming more WASPy.

Noun

WASPization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making or becoming more WASPy.
    • And the prospect of genteel notoriety for their unborn heirs is the source of the Mob's drive for WASPization.1971, Chicago Journalism Review, volume 4, page 14
    • What is hastening the decay of Hinduism however it^([sic]) its "WASPization." The rich diversity of tradition is sought to be replaced by an orthodoxy and a single monolithic accepted canon.1992, Edwin Jayadas, “Tribals in Our Global Village: Agenda for the Third Millennium”, in Pan Media, page 41

Origin of WASPization

From WASP + -ization.

Questions about WASPization

What does WASPization mean?
WASPization means the process of making or becoming more WASPy.
What part of speech is WASPization?
WASPization is a noun.

Words near WASPization in the dictionary

  1. wasping
  2. wasping around
  3. waspish
  4. waspishly
  5. waspishness
  6. WASPization
  7. WASPize
  8. waspless
  9. wasplike
  10. waspling
  11. wasplings

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