Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
noun
(obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
The state or quality of being civilized.
civilizational
civilizational
adj
Pertaining to or arising from civilization
civilizationally
civilizationally
adv
In terms of civilization.
civilizations
civilizations
noun
plural of civilization
civilizatory
civilizatory
adj
That tends to civilize
clavelization
clavelization
noun
inoculation (of an animal) against sheeppox
collectivization
collectivization
noun
(especially in communist states) The process of abolishing privately-owned farmland organizing all its workers into large, publicly-owned collectives.
The act of collectivizing
collectivize
collectivize
verb
To organize a farm or industrial enterprise on the basis of collective control
collectivized
collectivized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of collectivize
collectivizes
collectivizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize
collectivizing
collectivizing
verb
present participle of collectivize
controversialize
controversialize
verb
(transitive) To make to appear controversial.
conventionalization
conventionalization
noun
The act or process of making conventional.
conventionalize
conventionalize
verb
(transitive) To make something conventional.
conventionalized
conventionalized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conventionalize
conventionalizes
conventionalizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize
conventionalizing
conventionalizing
verb
present participle of conventionalize
counterrevolutionize
counterrevolutionize
verb
To cause or undergo a counterrevolution.
decivilization
decivilization
noun
The process of decivilization.
deconventionalize
devocalization
devocalization
noun
Act or process of devocalizing.
devulcanization
devulcanization
noun
To process of treating vulcanized rubber so as to restore the materials that were present prior to vulcanization.
electrogalvanization
electrogalvanize
galvanocauterization
galvanocauterization
noun
Synonym of galvanocautery
hypercivilization
hypercivilization
noun
The state of being hypercivilized.
incivilization
incivilization
noun
The state of being uncivilized; barbarism.
intercivilization
nonvocalization
overcapitalization
overcapitalization
noun
The state of being overcapitalized.
overcapitalize
overcapitalize
verb
(transitive) to capitalize a business beyond a sustainable level
(transitive) to estimate the value of a company, stock etc too highly
overcapitalized
overcapitalized
adj
Having excess capital.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize
overcapitalizes
overcapitalizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize
overcapitalizing
overcapitalizing
verb
present participle of overcapitalize
overcentralization
overcentralization
noun
Excessive centralization.
overcentralize
overcentralize
verb
(transitive) To centralize too much.
overcentralized
overcentralized
adj
Overly centralized or concentrated in authority.
overcentralizing
overcentralizing
verb
present participle of overcentralize
overcivilization
overcivilization
noun
Excessive civilization; the quality of being overcivilized.
overcommercialization
overcommercialization
noun
Excessive commercialization.
overintellectualization
overintellectualization
noun
excessive intellectualization
overintellectualize
overintellectualize
verb
To treat something in an excessively intellectual manner
overintellectualized
overintellectualized
adj
Treated in an excessively intellectual manner
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overintellectualize
overintellectualizing
overintellectualizing
verb
present participle of overintellectualize
overpictorialize
overpictorialized
overpictorializing
overspecialization
overspecialization
noun
Extreme or excessive specialization.
precivilization
precivilization
noun
The time prior to civilization.
provincialization
provincialization
noun
The process of making something provincial.
recivilization
semicivilization
subcivilization
subcivilizations
supercivilization
supercivilization
noun
A very advanced civilization that includes an interstellar presence
uncivilization
uncivilization
noun
The quality of not being civilized.
unconventionalize
unconventionalize
verb
(transitive) To make unconventional.
unconventionalized
unconventionalized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unconventionalize
unconventionalizes
unconventionalizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unconventionalize
vacuolization
vacuolization
noun
Alternative form of vacuolation
vascularization
vascularization
noun
(botany) the formation of leaf veins
(medicine) the formation of blood vessels and capillaries in living tissue
the process of being vascularized.
vernacularization
vernacularization
noun
The act or process of making vernacular.
vocalization
vocalization
noun
(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
(orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
(orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
(phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
The use of speech to express an idea
vocalizations
vocalizations
noun
plural of vocalization
vocationalization
vocationalization
noun
The process of making something vocational.
vocationalize
vocationalize
verb
(transitive) To make vocational; to introduce career-related elements into.
volcanizate
volcanization
volcanization
noun
The process of undergoing volcanic heat and being affected by it.
vulcanization
vulcanization
noun
A process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur.