Usually means: Reducing complexity to simplistic characteristics.
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  1. essentializing: Merriam-Webster
  2. essentializing: Wiktionary
  3. essentializing: Dictionary.com
  4. essentializing: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See essentialize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (essentialize)

verb:  (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence.
verb:  (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
verb:  (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).
▸ Also see essentialize


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