familialize

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verb

To give familial character to

Scrabble 25

Meanings

verbfamilialize (third-person singular simple present familializes, present participle familializing, simple past and past participle familialized)

present singular third person familializes · participle present familializing · participle past familialized · past familialized · alternative familialise

  1. BritishEnglishOxfordUSTo give familial character to

    This concept should not be understood as simply defining a part of an individual’s personality, but embraces an enactment and conception of the world which tend to familialize all of our relations to others and to our environment.

    2015, Jean-Luc Prades, “Sociopsychoanalysis and Psychofamilialism. Getting Away from the Psychologization of the Social”, in Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie, volume 20, number 2, page 213

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

Translations

French familialiser
  • familialiserTranslations
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APA

familialize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/familialize

MLA

“familialize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/familialize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “familialize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/familialize.

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