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intellectualize
(redirected from intellectualizing)

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in·tel·lec·tu·al·ize  (ntl-kch--lz)
tr.v. in·tel·lec·tu·al·ized, in·tel·lec·tu·al·iz·ing, in·tel·lec·tu·al·iz·es
1. To furnish a rational structure or meaning for.
2. To avoid psychological insight into (an emotional problem) by performing an intellectual analysis.

intel·lectu·al·izer n.


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Although the interventions may include providing information and problem-solving, this approach avoids intellectualizing about the therapeutic goal by focusing on the process among family members and between the family and other systems.
navel-gazers" who spend tremendous amounts of time on "serious thinking," debating and intellectualizing and don't accomplish much.
It is a stupendous and persuasive piece of scholarship, opening up an unfamiliar episode in the history of art when Renaissance paradigms were transformed by means of a pictorial philosophy that, by intellectualizing the response to images, inhibited the tendency to treat them as objects of devotion--and, of course, it was precisely this tendency that Protestants found unacceptable in Catholic practice.
 
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