specularization

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noun

The act or process of specularizing.

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Meanings

nounspecularization (countable and uncountable, plural specularizations)

plural specularizations

  1. countableuncountableThe act or process of specularizing.

    Here is a sentence (or what I took to be one because it ended with a period) from the contribution by the Frenchman Jacques Derrida, the volume’s most prestigious name: “He speaks his mother tongue as the language of the other and deprives himself of all reappropriation, all specularization in it.”

    2009 April 19, Walter Kirn, “Deconstructing Princeton”, in New York Times

Origin

From specular + -ization.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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