peculiarization

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From peculiar +‎ -ization.

Noun[edit]

peculiarization (countable and uncountable, plural peculiarizations)

  1. The act or process of peculiarizing, or of making peculiar.
    • 2020 July 28, Kevin Brockmeier, “Aimee Bender’s Latest Is a Proustian Reverie”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Her earlier books were dedicated, as this one is, to transfiguring the American domestic landscape by way of magic, fantasy, bewitchment, peculiarization.