radicalization

• radicalisation

From radical + -ization.

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radicalization (countable and uncountable, plural radicalizations)

1. The process of radicalizing.
   • 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

     From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.

   • 2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2025:

     One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.

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