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n. - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict.

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  • You could be over-reacting, in your touchy-feely, left-wing, liberal, PC, paranoid over-intellectualisation of the words on the page in front of you.
  • And yet, even with Graphic Design's recent entry to the academy and its supposed intellectualisation as a field of study and research, we seem to be bombarded more and...
  • The feeling of these satisfied him entirely, though of course be was incapable of their intellectualisation.
  • In the case of monarchy one can also watch the intellectualisation of the whole process by the newspapers, the official biographers, the courtiers, and possibly the...
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