divinization

/ˌdɪvɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Etymology

From divine + -ization.

divinization means the act or process of making divine. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

Why this word is great

DIVINIZATION — [Noun] The act or process of making divine, of imbuing with a godlike essence. From the English word divine (pertaining to a god) + the suffix -ization (denoting an action or process). Unlike deification (which evokes the formal rites of a pantheon) or apotheosis (which suggests a singular, crowning ascent), divinization is a quieter, more osmotic alchemy. It is the centuries-long accrual of sanctity that turns a peasant’s grave into a site of pilgrimage, the slow burnishing of a family heirloom into a relic, or the private love that, for a moment, erases the boundary between the human and the holy. It is the gentle heresy of discovering the eternal not by proclamation, but by patient perception.

noun

The act or process of making divine.“[W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves?”