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Vulgarization

noun

The act of rendering something coarse and unrefined. Synonym: vulgarisation.

The act of making something attractive to the general public. Synonyms: popularisation, popularization, vulgarisation.

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Etymology of 'Vulgarization'

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"Vulgarization" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the idea of God, so that it needed years and much bitter disillusionment before I discovered my need of it. And I was as wanting in subtlety as in depth. We did no logic nor philosophy at Harbury, and at Oxford it was not so much thought we came to deal with as a mistranslation and vulgarization of ancient and alien exercises in thinking. There is no such effective serum against philosophy as the scholarly decoction of a dead philosopher. The philosophical teaching of Oxford at the end of the last century was not so much teaching as a protective inoculation. The stuff was administered ...

— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

Words linked to "Vulgarization" : vulgarize, popularisation, debasement, degradation