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SPIRITUALIZATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spiritualization mean?
• SPIRITUALIZATION (noun)
The noun SPIRITUALIZATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content
Familiarity information: SPIRITUALIZATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
spiritualisation; spiritualization
Hypernyms ("spiritualization" is a kind of...):
change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)
Derivation:
spiritualize (purify from the corrupting influences of the world)
spiritualize (give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense)
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