verb transitiveWord forms: esˈsentialˌized or esˈsentialˌizing
to concentrate on the essential meanings or aspects of
essentialize in American English
(əˈsenʃəˌlaiz)
transitive verbWord forms: -ized, -izing
to extract the essence from; express the essence of
Alsoesp Britessentialise
Word origin
[1660–70; essential + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1660–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: adhesive, aspirate, indicator, joke, saturated-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)
Examples of 'essentialize' in a sentence
essentialize
This essay aims to clarify what it means to de-essentialize the concept of “resilience”.
Martin Endress 2015, 'The Social Constructedness of Resilience', Social Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/533. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)