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cutification

noun

Etymology

Related to cutis (“the true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis”) or cuticle; The Oxford English Dictionary proposes a connection to hypothetical Latin *cutificāre.

  1. derived from *cutificāre✻

Definitions

  1. The formation of cuticles.

  2. 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.
    • 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.
    • In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare charts the inevitable cutification of political myth.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for cutification. 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