单词 | popularization |
释义 | popularizationn. The action of popularizing or fact of being popularized (in various senses of the verb); spec. (sometimes with negative connotation) the presentation of a technical or specialized subject in a generally intelligible or appealing form; the result or product of this process. Cf. popularize v. 2c, popular adj. 4a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] publicationa1387 publishing?c1450 publishmenta1513 propagation1531 divulgating1537 bruit1548 divulgation1548 edition1549 notifying1550 promulgation1562 provulgation1566 diffusion1600 blazon1603 divulging1604 divulge1619 ventilationa1631 evulgation1638 propalationa1676 circulation1684 popularization1797 pervulgationa1832 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > simplifying, popularization > [noun] simplification1751 popularization1797 popularizing1817 vulgarization1865 tabloidization1926 vulgarisation1939 haute vulgarisation1946 reductiveness1953 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > fact of being generally available > making popularization1797 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > making democratic democratizing1794 popularization1797 democratization1798 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > popularity > [noun] > making popular popularization1797 1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 22 546 The popularization of the measure. 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 449 The universality of literature, its general popularization by the press. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. Concl. 453 The popularisation of the pamphlet led the way to periodical writing. 1936 Stage June 45/1 The Nazi racial theory is so absurdly unscientific, so full of ill comprehended popularizations and approximations, that it cannot be accepted by any sane, educated mind. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 243 It [sc. Bog Myrtle] was one of those plants which gave a flavouring to ale or beer before the popularization of hops. 1999 High Country News 26 Apr. 16/1 Since popularization sells and formidable intellectualism does not, underground you go, dear professor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1797 |
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