Home › Words › L › linguisticizelinguisticizelinguisticize means to make linguistic; to reduce to a question of linguistics.EtymologyFrom linguistic + -ize.verbTo make linguistic; to reduce to a question of linguistics.e.g.“To Gotz, however, such a development is abhorrent; for his purposes the best application of language is obviously the one that "linguisticizes" least.” — 1986, Bruce Kieffer, The Storm and Stress of Language: Linguistic Catastrophe in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger, and Schiller:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).