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Definition of "intellectualise" [intellectualise]

  • Alternative spelling of intellectualize. (verb)

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Use "intellectualise" in a sentence
  • "By now I knew that one of my old faults had been a tendency to over-intellectualise my stories."
  • "As regards to the education system, I'm reminded partly of Sarah Monette's review of Clute's Darkening Garden (which talks about SFF's imperviousness to the techniques that comprise the "new criticism") and partly of the bit in Annie Hall when allen's character decides to kiss the girl at the start of the date because an intellectual can only ever intellectualise everything."
  • "It was easily to intellectualise you way into this or that and the Nazis had great appeal to the educated."