radicalization

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English radical
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English radicalization

    From radical + -ization.

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    Noun

    radicalization (countable and uncountable, plural radicalizations)

    1. The process of radicalizing.
      • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish):
        This remark, it is true, belongs to a time when Engels was himself connected with the Young Hegelians […] nevertheless, it is typical of the hopes that were cherished in the early stages for a radicalization of the master's system.
      • 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:
        From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.
      • 2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd‎[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2025:
        One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.

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