intellectualize

To furnish a rational structure or meaning for.

To avoid psychological insight into (an emotional problem) by performing an intellectual analysis.

To treat or reason upon in an intellectual manner.

To inform or endow with intellect; cause to become intellectual; develop the intellect or intellectuality of.

To give or attribute an intellectual or ideal character or aspect to; idealize.

Also spelled intellectualise.

To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.

To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.

To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.

To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.