essentialize
verbEtymology
From essential + -ize.
- derived from essentia
- borrowed from essentiālis
Definitions
To reduce (something) to its essence.
To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
- “This is an essentializing of Hinduism,” Ms. Narayanan said, “and the diversity of Hinduism in India is lost here.”
To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to…
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).
- to essentialize race by stereotyping "what Whites do" or "how Blacks think"
The neighborhood
- neighboressential
- neighboressentialism
- neighboressentialist
- neighboressentialistic
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for essentialize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA