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hominization

Meaning of "hominization" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HOMINIZATION

ˌhɒmɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMINIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hominization is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOMINIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hominization

Hominization, also called anthropogenesis, refers to the process of becoming human, and is used in somewhat different contexts in the fields of paleontology and paleoanthropology, archeology, philosophy and theology.

Definition of hominization in the English dictionary

The definition of hominization in the dictionary is the process of developing characteristics that are distinctive of humans.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMINIZATION

authorization · characterization · civilization · customization · globalization · hospitalisation · hospitalization · hybridization · localization · novelization · optimisation · optimization · organisation · organization · realization · specialization · stabilization · synchronization · utilization · visualization

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMINIZATION

homiletic · homiletical · homiletically · homiletics · homilies · homilist · homily · hominess · homing · homing device · homing guidance · homing instinct · homing pigeon · hominid · hominine · hominisation · hominize · hominoid · hominy · hominy grits

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMINIZATION

accreditation · action · administration · animation · application · association · certification · citation · combination · communication · confirmation · conversation · corporation · creation · decoration · destination · documentation · duration · education · evaluation · excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of hominization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hominization» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMINIZATION

Find out the translation of hominization to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hominization from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hominization» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

hominization
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hominización
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hominization
510 millions of speakers
hi

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hominization
380 millions of speakers
ar

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أنسنة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

гоминизации
278 millions of speakers
pt

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hominização
270 millions of speakers
bn

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hominization
260 millions of speakers
fr

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hominisation
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Hominization
190 millions of speakers
de

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Menschwerdung
180 millions of speakers
ja

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hominization
130 millions of speakers
ko

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hominization
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Hominisasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

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hominization
80 millions of speakers
ta

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hominization
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Hominisation
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hominization
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

dell´ominizzazione
65 millions of speakers
pl

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hominization
50 millions of speakers
uk

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гоминизации
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

hominizarii
30 millions of speakers
el

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hominization
15 millions of speakers
af

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hominization
14 millions of speakers
sv

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hominization
10 millions of speakers
no

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hominization
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hominization

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMINIZATION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of hominization
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hominization

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMINIZATION»

Discover the use of hominization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hominization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Being as Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl ...
Karl Rahner, Hominization: The Evolutionary Origin of Man as a Theological Problem, trans. W. T. O'Hara (Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Herder, 1965); originally published as "Die Hominisation als theologische Frage," in Paul Overhage and Karl ...
Stephen M. Fields, 2000
2
Rawls and Religion: The Case for Political Liberalism
Immediate hominization became the dominant view in Western Christianity in general only after the seventeenth century, when scientists, using primitive microscopes and magnifying glasses, thought they saw fully formed fetuses ( homunculi) ...
Daniel A. Dombrowski, 2001
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A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion
It is ironic that over forty years ago two learned priests from Louvain — E. C. Messenger and Henry de Dorlodot — repudiated the scientific standing of immediate hominization and went to great lengths to explain historically how this mistaken ...
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Robert John Deltete, 2000
4
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
CHAPTER. THREE. The. Process. of. Hominization. Posing the Problem J.-M. O.: We are at the point of asking just how far back in human or pre-human history the victimage mechanism should be situated. If this mechanism is the foundation ...
René Girard, 1987
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Cengage Advantage Books: Bioethics in a Cultural Context: ...
These opposed positions about when ontological status is attained reflect an old theological debate about hominization and ensoulment. Hominization and Ensoulment In Roman Catholic theology, hominization, from the Latin word hominem ...
Vincent Barry, 2011
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Biomedicine and Beatitude: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics
The Delayed Hominization Argument Finally, unlike the three other objections just considered, the argument for delayed hominization has a uniquely Catholic provenance. Appealing to the thought of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, several ...
Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, 2011
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Growing Young
Bolk believed that Hominization or fetalization had proceeded furthest in the " white races" as compared with the black. According to Bolk the lesser fetalization and less extended retardation is exhibited by the "black races" in their long skull,  ...
Ashley Montagu, 1989
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Methodology and African Prehistory
The prehistorian approaches the problem of hominization in Africa from a standpoint that is somewhat different from that of the palaeontologist. For the prehistorian, hominization is the progressive development of the brain, or cerebralization, ...
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, J. Ki-Zerbo, 1990
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Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin ...
Baxter's EVOLUTION and Post-Hominization The whole history of the world . . . although of a length quite incomprehensible by us, will hereafter be recognised as a mere fragment of time, compared with the ages which have elapsed since the ...
Nicholas Ruddick, 2010
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The Ground Beneath the Cross
This twofold understanding of liberation parallels a crucial anthropological distinction that Ella- curia posits between the dynamic process of hominization and that of humanization. Hominization refers to the evolutionary emergence of the ...
Kevin F. Burke, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMINIZATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hominization is used in the context of the following news items.
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Musing on Something Dr. James McGrath Said.
... in 6:1-4) and the Mutually Assured Destruction (Hobbes: “the war of all against all”) that is happening in the hominization process (or how we ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
2
The Gods of Spinoza & Teilhard de Chardin
... and increasingly unified (co-ordinated) mental activity moves us toward ever higher levels of what he calls 'hominization'; ultimately meaning higher levels of ... «Philosophy Now, Jan 15»
3
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould
Before Gould's remonstrations began, one frequently heard the term “hominization” bandied about, as if becoming human had involved some kind of special ... «Natural History Magazine, Mar 13»
4
Love Is Not God, but Thankfully, Neither Is Mark Driscoll
But even then I would argue that our impulse toward self-centeredness is a by-product of the hominization process rather than the result of a ... «Huffington Post, Mar 13»
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Holiday calendar: Satellite shows a Grander Canyon
... as tool-maker and user of fire represents a significant moment in the development of human consciousness or hominization of the species. «NBCNews.com, Dec 12»
6
The Church on Abortion: A Misconstrued History
The moment of "hominization", of course, is the moment of ensoulment. The Church has always taught that God infuses the soul into the new ... «Catholic Culture, Nov 12»
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NSFW Sunday is Smart and Sexy, In That Order
believe that artistic representations of genitalia from the Paleolithic may shed light on something called sexual hominization, i.e. the process by ... «Autostraddle, May 12»
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The illegality of legalising abortion in Malawi
They say that since it is not known when hominization or ensoulment (beginning of life) takes place, the foetus can be likened to any of the ... «Nyasa Times, Jan 12»
9
Darwinists Like Religion When It Opposes Human Exceptionalism?
It is this which authorizes the Christian to integrate the history of salvation into the history of the cosmos" (Hominization [1958], 55). Creation is ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 11»
10
Following in Darwin's Footsteps
... researchers of the world to discuss all the problems and ideas all around hominization," Fullola Pericot writes in an e-mail to Science Careers ... «ScienceCareers.org, Jun 09»
REFERENCE
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