"essentialize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: essentializes [present, singular, third-person], essentializing [participle, present], essentialized [participle, past], essentialized [past]
Etymology: essential + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|essential|ize}} essential + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} essentialize (third-person singular simple present essentializes, present participle essentializing, simple past and past participle essentialized)
  1. (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence. Tags: transitive Translations (to reduce to its essence): essentialiser (French), essentialisieren (German)
    Sense id: en-essentialize-en-verb-adDzpaZj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 45 42 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 26 38 36 Disambiguation of 'to reduce to its essence': 67 21 11
  2. (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-essentialize-en-verb-Tnrbs-Su Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 45 42 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 26 38 36
  3. (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-essentialize-en-verb-UvHCWgAD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 45 42 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 26 38 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: essentialization, essentializer Related terms: essential, essentialism, essentialist, essentialistic

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