vulgarization

vul·gar·ize

(vŭl′gə-rīz′)

tr.v. vul·gar·ized, vul·gar·iz·ing, vul·gar·iz·es

1. To make vulgar; debase: "What appalls him is the sheer cheesiness of TV iniquity. Television has even vulgarized hell" (Jack Kroll).

2. To disseminate widely; popularize.

vul′gar·i·za′tion (-gər-ĭ-zā′shən) n.

vul′gar·iz′er n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun	1.	vulgarization - the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined vulgarisation degradation, debasement - changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
	2.	vulgarization - the act of making something attractive to the general public popularisation, popularization, vulgarisation degradation, debasement - changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

Translations

εκχυδαϊσμός

divulga-

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

It was the fussy, sentimental, inconsiderate interest in one thrown into purely accidental and necessarily painful prominence - the vulgarization of an unspeakable tragedy - that my soul abhorred.

View in context

The viewer of The Front Runner can't help but feel she's being told something that is meant to be relevant to Donald Trump--perhaps something about the modern vulgarization of the race for the White House.

THE FRONT RUNNER

The editor has organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in eleven chapters devoted to the case of Erasmus, Jan van den DaleAEs Uure van den doot and the use of language, Simone Porzio and the problem of philosophical vulgarization, and a wide variety of other related subjects.

Bilingual Europe: Latin and Vernacular Cultures, Examples of Bilingualism and Multilingualism c. 1300-1800

This will at the same time be the biggest vulgarization of the census for which there are European standards.