cretinizationn.
/ˌkrɛtᵻnʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌkrɛtn̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkritn̩əˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌkritnˌaɪˈzeɪʃən/ The action or process of causing a thing or person to become cretinous; reduction to a cretinous state.
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1864 Soc. Sci. Rev. 2 360 M. Renaudin has argued against the construction of single-rooms or cells for asylum patients..as tending..to pervert the bodily functions, to produce a sort of ‘cretinisation’.
1886 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy: Catholic Reaction I. iv. 286 He consistently employed its delicate system of wheels and pulleys..always for the subjugation and cretinization of the mind of Europe.
1920 Nation 10 July 465/2 Autocracy means..the paralysis and cretinization of the society which submits to it.
1956 Dissent Spring 161 The new radical..feels that the dangers of progressive cretinization via the mass media are as serious a problem as economic deprivation.
2007 Independent 16 July 33/2 This cretinisation of our politics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1864- semi-shaft
- semi-shaven
- semi-simious
- semi-single
- semi-sixth
- semi-skilled
- semi-skimmed
- semi-social
- semi-socialism
- semi-socialist
- semi-socinian
- semi-solemn
- semi-solid
- semi-solidified
- semi-soun
- semi-span
- semi-spherical
- semi-spinalis
- semi-spiral
- semi-spiritous
- semi-sporting
- semi-sports
- semi-square
- semi-stagnation
- semi-staminate