marginalizationn.
/ˌmɑːdʒɪnəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmɑːdʒɪnl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmɑːdʒn̩əlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmɑːdʒn̩l̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmɑrdʒənələˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌmɑrdʒənəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ The process or result of becoming or making marginal; spec. the process of making an individual or minority group marginal in relation to a dominant social group.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > making unimportant
superficializing1828
trivializationa1866
minifying1867
sidetracking1872
de-emphasis1940
marginalization1940
trivializing1963
deprioritization1975
marginalizing1977
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun] > result or process of
marginalization1940
1940 Econ. Jrnl. 50 316 We can observe, in Bantu society, the balancing of utilities against disutilities, the equi-marginalisation of returns and the maximisation of returns.
1973 Universities Q. Summer 283 This process of inpoverishment [sic]..Latin American investigators have rightly described as the marginalization of the masses. This process takes various forms: proletarianization of farmers..and of craftsmen; semi-proletarianization; [etc.].
1984 Listener 16 Feb. 10/3 A wholesale exclusion of, or, at best, a marginalisation of foreign thinking, both past and present.
1987 New Internationalist May 14/1 In the U.S...the ‘underclass’ is largely black and isolated in urban ghettos, so its marginalization is much less disturbing to prosperous Americans than are the visible unemployed within more homogeneous European countries.
1990 D. Walder in Lit. in Mod. World (1991) II. v. 233 McGrath reminds his Cambridge undergraduate audience of his position, as a product of the northern English working class; and of the relevance of such reminders when considering questions of assimilation and marginalization.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1940- half-equitant
- half-evergreen
- half-eyed
- half-face
- half-faced
- half-faced camp
- half-faced groat
- half-facing
- half-falconet
- half-farthing
- half-fifteen
- half-file
- half-fill
- half-finished
- half-firkin
- half-fish
- half-flat
- half-fledged
- half-fleeced
- half-flood
- half-floor
- half-florin
- half-foot
- half-formed
- half-forty