mediumizationn.
/ˌmiːdɪəmʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmidiəməˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmidiəˌmaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ rare.
The action or process of making a person a spiritual medium.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > spiritualist or medium > practices of or conversion into
mediumship1852
mediumism1864
medianimity1876
mediumization1880
1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country (1881) ii. 29 The crude and unsettled spiritual existence reached by our present system of mediumisation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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