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popularization

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — popular sits at #1,371Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Popularization is putting expert knowledge into a form the public can take up. A gifted popularization.

It is looked down on by specialists and does more for a field than any paper. A good popularization simplifies without saying anything the expert would call false.

Definitions of popularization

  1. 1nounpopularizationThe act of putting expert knowledge into a form the general public can enjoy and take up widely.C1

    “The popularization sold a million copies and offended half the department.”

popularization is a process.

Also accepted in games: popularisation

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    populer

  2. English

    popular

  3. English, today

    popularization

From popular + -ization. popular comes from Middle English populer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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popularization in the wild

  • Others have attributed the phrase's popularization to Massaro's subsequent time at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, where use of the word spread.

    Oorah

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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