radicalization

English

Alternative forms

• radicalisation

Etymology

From radical +‎ -ization.

Noun

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, 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.

Derived terms

• active radicalization
• antiradicalization
• deradicalization
• pre-radicalization
• reradicalization

Related terms

• radicalize

Translations

the process or result of radicalizing

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: радыкаліза́цыя f (radykalizácyja) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: radicalització (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 激進化 / 激进化 (jījìnhuà) Czech: radikalizace f Danish: radikalisering c Dutch: radicalisering (nl) f Faroese: please add this translation if you can French: radicalisation (fr) Galician: radicalización (gl) f German: Radikalisierung (de) f Greek: ριζοσπαστικοποίηση (el) f (rizospastikopoíisi) Hebrew: רָדִיקָלִיזָצְיָה f Hindi: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Italian: radicalizzazione (it) f Japanese: 先鋭化 (sen'eika) Korean: please add this translation if you can Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rihdaribûn, rihdarikirin Latvian: radikalizācija f Lithuanian: radikalizacija f Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: radykalizacja (pl) f Portuguese: radicalização f Russian: радикализа́ция (ru) f (radikalizácija) Samogitian: radikalizacėjė f Spanish: radicalización Swedish: radikalisering (sv) c Ukrainian: радикаліза́ція f (radykalizácija) Vietnamese: sự cực đoan hoá