politicize

English

Alternative forms

• politicise (British)

Etymology

From politic +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pə-lĭt'ĭsīz', IPA^(key): /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz/

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Verb

politicize (third-person singular simple present politicizes, present participle politicizing, simple past and past participle politicized)

1. (intransitive) To discuss politics.
2. (transitive) To give something political characteristics; to turn into a political issue.

   My parents started politicizing the weather as soon as they opened their snowplow business.

3. (transitive) To make someone politically active or aware.
   • 1977 December 24, Richard Burns, “It Was a 'Big Splash' at The Aquarium”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 25, page 9:

     The possibility of setting up an educational arm which could politicize gays in Massachusetts through a series of seminars and through the publication of a booklet providing a background on the history of gay rights.

Synonyms

• politize (dated)

Antonyms

• depoliticize

Derived terms

• politicization
• depoliticize
• depoliticization

Translations

to discuss politics

• Bulgarian: занимавам се с политика (zanimavam se s politika)
• Finnish: politikoida (fi)
• Hungarian: politizál (hu)
• Macedonian: бистри политика (bistri politika)

to give something political characteristics

• Belarusian: палітызава́ць impf or pf (palityzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: политизирам (politiziram)
• Catalan: polititzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治化 (zh) (zhèngzhìhuà)

• Czech: politizovat
• Finnish: politisoida (fi)
• French: politiser (fr)
• Galician: politizar (gl)
• German: politisieren (de)
• Greek: πολιτικοποιώ (el) (politikopoió)
• Italian: politicizzare (it)
• Korean: 정치화(政治化) (jeongchihwa)
• Macedonian: политизи́ра (politizíra)
• Occitan: politizar
• Polish: upolityczniać impf, upolitycznić pf
• Portuguese: politizar (pt)
• Romanian: politiza (ro)
• Russian: политизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (politizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: politizar (es)
• Swedish: politisera (sv)
• Ukrainian: політизува́ти (uk) impf or pf (polityzuváty)

to make someone politically active

• Catalan: polititzar (ca)
• Finnish: politisoida (fi)
• Galician: politizar (gl)
• German: politisieren (de)
• Greek: πολιτικοποιώ (el) (politikopoió)
• Italian: politicizzare (it)
• Portuguese: politizar (pt)
• Spanish: politizar (es)
• Swedish: politisera (sv)

See also

• politicalize