cutification
nounEtymology From cut(e) + -ification.
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Nonstandard, Usually The process of cutifying or becoming cute.
- I don't like the song-and-dance, I don't like the cutifications, I don't like the happifications, etc.1997 November 6, Ru Igarashi, “A question of BLIND FAITH in Disney and P. Mononoke”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
- There is also striking resemblance between the cutification of animals and the cutification of women (portraying pubescent women or women as girlish or "baby-dollish") in advertisements.2007 November, Liz Grauerholz, “Cute Enough to Eat: The Transformation of Animals into Meat for Human Consumption in Commercialized Images”, in Humanity & Society, volume 31, number 4, Thousands Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 349:
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- In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare charts the inevitable cutification of political myth.2016 Summer, Colby Gordon, “Candied Cleopatra: The Cute Aesthetics of Shakespeare's Political Theology”, in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, volume 16, number 3, Philadelphia, P.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31:
- Related terms
- cutify