specularization

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

specular +‎ -ization

Noun[edit]

specularization (countable and uncountable, plural specularizations)

  1. The act or process of specularizing.
    • 2009 April 19, Walter Kirn, “Deconstructing Princeton”, in New York Times[1]:
      Here is a sentence (or what I took to be one because it ended with a period) from the contribution by the Frenchman Jacques Derrida, the volume’s most prestigious name: “He speaks his mother tongue as the language of the other and deprives himself of all reappropriation, all specularization in it.”