intellectualize

Example Sentences

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“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

“I think I was trying to intellectualize my feelings to get away from being vulnerable,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

I’m a psychologist and so the way I manage any negative feelings is to intellectualize: I think about the causes and context of a situation.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024

Martiel doesn’t intellectualize slavery’s wake; instead, he makes it terribly present, in the body of a living person: his own.

From New York Times • May 23, 2024

How people who can’t face their own negative emotions intellectualize things?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King