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celebrification

noun

Etymology

Blend of celebrity + -ification.

  1. derived from -ification
  2. compounded as celebrification — “celebrity + -ification”

Definitions

  1. The introduction of celebrity as a factor in some field or discipline.

    • Chuck Todd, editor of the online political clearinghouse Hotline, calls the gossip phenomenon “pack gossip journalism,” a byproduct of the celebrification of politics and the attendant proliferation of media to cover it.
    • The rise of populism in an age of celebrification also plays into the coarsening of discourse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for celebrification. 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