intellectualize
Example Sentences
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“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.
“I think I was trying to intellectualize my feelings to get away from being vulnerable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times
Sit in the building that originated “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” and you feel a certain pressure to intellectualize your ideas, to overstress your originality.
From Los Angeles Times
In the short run, that’s a positive coping skill, but in the long run, when you continue to intellectualize and you don’t feel, that can show in different ways like binge drinking, excessive shopping, excessive doomscrolling, physical breakdowns or even dipping into low-function depression.
From Los Angeles Times
You can sit back afterward and intellectualize everything, but when you’re watching it, even when it’s weird, it makes logical sense.
From Salon
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