radicalization en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English radical Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English radicalization From radical + -ization.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process of radicalizing.
From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.
2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:This remark, it is true, belongs to a time when Engels was himself connected with the Young Hegelians […] nevertheless, it is typical of the hopes that were cherished in the early stages for a radicalization of the master's system.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.
2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2025:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| radicalisation | alternative | lexicographic | |
| radicalizations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
deradicalization · active radicalization · pre-radicalization · reradicalization · antiradicalization
Relateds
Translations (28)
kmr rihdaribûn (the process or result of radicalizing) · sgs radikalizacėjė (the process or result of radicalizing) · cy radicaleiddiad (the process or result of radicalizing) · de Radikalisierung (the process or result of radicalizing) · uk радикаліза́ція (the process or result of radicalizing) · cs radikalizace (the process or result of radicalizing) · lv radikalizācija (the process or result of radicalizing) · sv radikalisering (the process or result of radicalizing) · ja 先鋭化 (the process or result of radicalizing) · vi sự cực đoan hoá (the process or result of radicalizing) · gl radicalización (the process or result of radicalizing) · da radikalisering (the process or result of radicalizing) · it radicalizzazione (the process or result of radicalizing) · be радыкаліза́цыя (the process or result of radicalizing) · kmr rihdarikirin (the process or result of radicalizing) · ca radicalització (the process or result of radicalizing) · cmn 激進化 /激进化 (the process or result of radicalizing) · he רָדִיקָלִיזָצְיָה (the process or result of radicalizing) · pt radicalização (the process or result of radicalizing) · nl radicalisering (the process or result of radicalizing) · fr radicalisation (the process or result of radicalizing) · es radicalización (the process or result of radicalizing) · ru радикализа́ция (the process or result of radicalizing) · el ριζοσπαστικοποίηση (the process or result of radicalizing) · fi radikalisoituminen (the process or result of radicalizing) · fi radikalisoiminen (the process or result of radicalizing) · lt radikalizacija (the process or result of radicalizing) · pl radykalizacja (the process or result of radicalizing)