cutification
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Related to cutis (“the true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis”) or cuticle; The Oxford English Dictionary proposes a connection to hypothetical Latin *cutificāre.
Noun[edit]
cutification (uncountable)
- The formation of cuticles.
Etymology 2[edit]
From cut(e) + -ification.
Noun[edit]
cutification (usually uncountable, plural cutifications)
- (nonstandard) The process of cutifying or becoming cute.
- 1997 November 6, Ru Igarashi, “A question of BLIND FAITH in Disney and P. Mononoke”, in rec.arts.anime.misc[1] (Usenet):
- I don't like the song-and-dance, I don't like the cutifications, I don't like the happifications, etc.
- 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, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 349:
- 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.
- 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, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31:
- In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare charts the inevitable cutification of political myth.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “cutification”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “cutification, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
