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動詞

essentialize (三人称単数 現在形 essentializes, 現在分詞 essentializing, 過去形および過去分詞形 essentialized)

1. (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence.
2. (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
   • 2007 July 21, Neela Banerjee, “Camp Joins Summer Fun With Teaching Hindu Faith”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “This is an essentializing of Hinduism,” Ms. Narayanan said, “and the diversity of Hinduism in India is lost here.”

3. (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).

   to essentialize race by stereotyping "what Whites do" or "how Blacks think"

派生語

• essentialization
• essentializer

関連する語

• essential
• essentialism
• essentialist
• essentialistic