metaphorizationn.
/ˌmɛtəfərʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəfərəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌmɛdəfəˌraɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of treating something metaphorically, or making a metaphor of something.
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1970 18th Cent. 4 97 The process of ‘metaphorization’ by which terms acquired new meaning and application.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 Dec. vii. 9/1 The book..is clotted with terms like ‘fixed spatialization, toponymical, metaphorization, reification, displacement’.
1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iii. 95 There is surely a note of jocularity in the way the metaphorization of the public-house calls attention to itself.
1996 Éire—Ireland Spring 125 Women have been written as the object of that desire by their metaphorization as the land itself.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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