单词 | primitivization |
释义 | primitivizationn. The action or process of making something simple or primitive; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > primitiveness or primevalness > rendering primitive or imputing primitiveness to primitivization1937 1937 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 47 389 The precipitate return..to the elemental sources of the culture, a pure political, mechanical primitivization whose child is stillborn. 1942 E. Hanfmann & J. Kasanin Conceptual Thinking in Schizophrenia vii. 95 Some of the examples that Cameron brings as illustrating overinclusion can be also seen as examples of extreme primitivisation of thinking. 1976 T. Stoianovich French Hist. Method 146 Since the impairment of an existing superstructure provokes economic primitivization, staunch support develops in favor of a viable new superstructure. 2004 Times (Nexis) 24 Aug. 24 Two stories last week..stirred in me a similar unease about the primitivisation of modern Britain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937 |
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