intellectualizationn.

1798 C. Lloyd Edmund Oliver II. lxxvii. 289 It is, perhaps, a necessary scale in the grand process of intellectualization, and perfection.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 677 At the time when the Edinburgh Review made its appearance, there existed, among all ranks and orders in this country, a general intellectualization.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) xv. 372 A superficial intellectualization is to be secured at the cost of a deep-seated demoralization.

1887 Harper's Mag. Oct. 807/2 Is this intellectualization of women beginning to show, in the conversation of women when they are together, say in the hours of relaxation?

1922 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 8 Nov. 6/2 Intellectualization also operates to produce effects, material ones.

1963 A. Michelson tr. J. Selz Mod. Sculpture: Origins & Evol. vii. 213 The pre-Cubist followers of Cézanne were to lead painting toward an intellectualization of form.

2008 New York Observer (Nexis) 25 Mar. There's also more than a little bit of intellectualization that goes into working out for many buff nerds, an approach to exercise that resembles nothing if not a lab report.