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Popularization   /pˌɑpjələrəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Popularization

noun
1.
An interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable.  Synonym: popularisation.
2.
The act of making something attractive to the general public.  Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization.






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"Popularization" Quotes from Famous Books



... object in taking the Ethics as much as possible out of the geometrical form, was not to improve upon the author's text; it was to give the lay reader a text of Spinoza he would find pleasanter to read and easier to understand. To the practice of popularization, Spinoza, one may confidently feel, would not be averse. He himself gave a short popular statement of his philosophy in ...
— The Philosophy of Spinoza • Baruch de Spinoza

... learned men are all the time trying to recoin them and give them at least partial reality. Ruskin set afloat some notions of art criticism, which have penetrated all our cultivated classes. They are not lost, but see what has become of them in fifty years by popularization. A little later a new gospel of furniture and house decoration was published. The masses have absorbed it. See what they have made of it. Eastlake wanted no machine work, but machinery was not to be defeated. It can make lopsided things if those are the fashion, and it can make ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... Liberty," "Extension of Colonial Freedom," "The American Revolution," "Independence of the United States," "Liberty in a Federal Constitution," "National Democracy," "The Frontier," "States Rights," "Slavery," "Nullification," and "The Popularization of Government." Important treatises having a special bearing on the Negro have not been omitted. Among these are Hinton Rowan Helpers' Appeal to the Non-slaveholding Whites, Benjamin Wade's Defiance ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various



Words linked to "Popularization" :   interpretation, popularize, degradation, debasement



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