intellectualization
- n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
- This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell.
- Director Lyman Lloyd Bryson of California Association for Adult Education feared that "the tendency toward over-intellectualization of sex education for children has robbed the .
- Indeed, the intellectualization of sex is Lang's cinematic specialty.