ignorization

English

Etymology

From ignorance +‎ -ization.

Noun

ignorization (uncountable)

1. (nonce word) The act of ignorizing.
   • 1989, Andrew T. Scull, Social Order/mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective:

     […] (in the words of one eminent psychiatrist, "'laymanization' was synonymous with 'ignorization'”).

   • 1994, Hanna Scolnicov, Woman's Theatrical Space, page 73:

     Now that Agnes is seventeen and her education, or ignorization, has been concluded to his satisfaction, Arnolphe intends to wed her.

   • 2005 Autumn, Yamila Hussein, “The Stone and the Pen: Palestinian Education During the 1987 intifada”, in The Radical Teacher, volume 74:

     As Palestinians saw it, at issue was a policy of ignorization which aimed at destroying their cultures academic capacities.