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beautification

noun
/bjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/UK

Etymology

First attested in 1600, from beautify (“to make beautiful”) + -ication.

  1. derived from facio
  2. derived from bellus
  3. derived from beaute
  4. inherited from beutifien
  5. suffixed as beautification — “beautify + ication”

Definitions

  1. Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.

    • Near-synonym: prettification
    • Thanks to the beautification efforts, the appearance of the highway has vastly improved.
    • This trend, which he attributes to social media and describes as “beautification” rather than a desire to turn back the years, might involve a blepharoplasty or removing buccal fat (between the cheek and jaw bones.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beautification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA