industrialization
/ɪnˌdʌstɹɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
industrialization means A process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a preindustrial to an industrial state. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
industrialization is pronounced /ɪnˌdʌstɹɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/.
Why “industrialization” is a great word
INDUSTRIALIZATION — [Noun] The process of social and economic transformation from a primarily agrarian society to one based on large-scale, mechanized manufacturing. From French industrialisation, formed from industrial (relating to industry) + -ization (denoting a process or action). First attested in English in 1883. Unlike “mechanization” (which refers specifically to the replacement of human toil with machines) or “urbanization” (which names the demographic drift to cities), industrialization is the total, tectonic shift. It is the rhythmic thunder of the night-shift forge, the sulfurous breath of the Bessemer converter, and the soot that settled like a new geology on every surface—a relentless reordering of human life, landscape, and time itself around the metronome of production.
Etymology
From French industrialisation. Analyzable as industrial + -ization or industrialize + -ation.
noun
- A process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a preindustrial to an industrial state.“It was during this period of industrialization that the individualistic world view of classical liberalism became the dominant ideology of capitalism.”