penalization

Noun penalization has 1 sense

• penalization(n = noun.act) penalisation, penalty, punishment - the act of punishing;
is a kind of social control
has particulars: castigation, chastisement, corporal punishment, cruel and unusual punishment, detention, correction, discipline, economic strangulation, imprisonment, medicine, music, self-punishment, stick, penance, self-abasement, self-mortification
Derived form verb penalize₁