different between vulgarization vs vulgarisation

English

Alternative forms

• vulgarisation (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

vulgar +? -ization

Noun

vulgarization (countable and uncountable, plural vulgarizations)

1. The process of making something vulgar, especially by using the language of ordinary people.
2. (sciences, uncommon) The process of making something accessible and attractive to the general public; the popular-science presentation of a topic, its popularization.

Quotations

• 1996, Linda C. Dowling, The Vulgarization of Art ?ISBN

Further reading

• vulgarization at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Noun

vulgarisation (countable and uncountable, plural vulgarisations)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarization.

   William Edward Collinson wrote a vulgarization book in Esperanto about linguistics.

   • 1957, The New Cambridge Modern History, volume I, "The Arts in Western Europe: Vernacular Literature in Western Europe", page 177:

     The Asolani (composed about 1500–2, printed in 1505 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia), a work of vulgarisation in the good sense, explained in Platonic dialogue form the principles of Platonic love, […]

   • 1995, Paul Melia, David Hockney ?ISBN, page 24:

     Artistic practices which adopt the traits of popular culture, whether in the art objects themselves, or in the ways they are disseminated, are seen to involve the vulgarisation of art.

French

Etymology

vulgariser +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vyl.?a.?i.za.sj??/

Noun

vulgarisation f (plural vulgarisations)

1. popular science

Further reading

• “vulgarisation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).