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Memorial vs Memorialization - What's the difference?

memorial | memorialization |

As nouns the difference between memorial and memorialization

is that memorial is memorial while memorialization is the act or process of memorializing or creating a memorial.

memorial

English

(wikipedia memorial)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
  • A service of remembrance or commemoration
  • (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
    • a memorial building
  • * Alexander Pope
    • There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
  • Contained in the memory.
    • a memorial possession
  • Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
  • * Skeat
    • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.

    memorialization

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act or process of memorializing or creating a memorial
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 2, author=Elias E. Lopez, title=Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“This is an important milestone in the whole memorialization process,” said Howard Dodson, one of the early leaders in the development of the memorial and the chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library . }}