internalized
adjective, verb
internalized is an adjective meaning “Of discriminatory views: held against one's own group, as a result of internalizing them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-Z-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does internalized mean?
adjective
- 1
Of discriminatory views: held against one's own group, as a result of internalizing them.
internalized homophobia
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of internalize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce internalized?
Internalized has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is internalized?
Internalized appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Internalized in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | internalizado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.