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banalize, v.|bəˈnɑːlaɪz|
[f. banal a. + -ize.]
trans. To render banal; to make commonplace.
1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xxviii. 380 But the great majority found a solution..in conventionalizing and banalizing Death itself. 1958L. Forster in Aspects of Translation 25 The girl has lost her heart, and this banal idea banalizes what follows. 1964Sci. Amer. May 140 The great and good traditional virtues have been eroded: love, generosity, self-denial, truthfulness, honesty, loyalty, friendship, kindness to children. That many of these traits have been banalized by advertising seems incidental. 1985N.Y. Times 8 Nov. c1/4 Many of the images that resulted are now classics in their kind. Endlessly travestied and banalized, they long ago lost their initial freshness.
Hence banaliˈzation; baˈnalized, baˈnalizing ppl. adjs.
1964S. Bellow Herzog 76 Reaching at last the point of denying the humanity of the industrialized, ‘banalized’ masses. 1968Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 21 Sept. 77/1 It is possible that the affluence..of our society has allowed a Deweyian commitment to survive its..banalization at the hands of professional educators. 1973Matias & Willemen tr. M. Cegarra in Screen Spring/Summer 143 Criticism..of simplified, simplifying and banalizing ‘examples’. 1985C. Rycroft Psychoanalysis & Beyond v. 83 The kind of background information which would enable one to decide whether the slips he quotes are interferences by repressed thoughts or merely banalisations. |