intellectualize

Meaning

  1. (transitive) To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
  2. (transitive) To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
  3. (US, transitive) To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
  4. (US, transitive) To find a seemingly rational explanation for.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃuəlaɪz/
Etymology

From intellectual + -ize.

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