Etymograph

English

agudization

Agudization comes from Spanish agudización ‘worsening, deterioration, exacerbation’.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentagudización‘worsening, deterioration, exacerbation’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1975agudization

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  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentagudización‘worsening, deterioration, exacerbation’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1975agudization

Earliest quotation: 1975, Luis Alberto Chirinos, Labor Conflict and Collective Bargaining in Peru: 1970-1975: “This might be correlated to the agudization of the…”

Today it means

noun Exacerbation, worsening.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Spanish agudización / agudization