demystifyv.
/diːˈmɪstɪfʌɪ/ transitive. To clarify (obscure, clouded, or irrational beliefs); to reduce or remove bewilderment, irrationality, etc., in (a person).
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > expound, explain [verb (transitive)]
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to throw sidelight on1726
to throw (also cast, shed) light on (also upon)1731
eclaircise1754
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unbraid1880
predigest1905
to get (something) straight1920
disambiguate1960
demystify1963
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 19/2 And so he has devoted himself to ‘demystifying politics’.
1967 D. Cooper Psychiatry & Anti-psychiatry v. 101 People (the analytic subjects) are demystified in terms of their phantastic hopes of gratification from the therapist as a parent-figure.
Derivatives
deˌmystifiˈcation n. the action of demystifying.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]
keyeOE
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demystification1964
1964 Economist 16 May 734/2 An attempt at demystification and therefore of human liberation.
1967 D. Cooper Psychiatry & Anti-psychiatry iv. 76 Demystification of these issues is necessary before..recommending..psycho-therapy or psycho-analysis.
1967 D. Cooper Psychiatry & Anti-psychiatry v. 101 This avoidance is conducted in the name of a sort of demystification.
1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 16/3 Aron talks again and again of demystification and desacralization, by which he means dissolving false or ideological constructs about the world and letting reality emerge as it really is.
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