sillification

noun

Etymology

From silly + -fication.

  1. inherited from *sālīg
  2. inherited from sǣliġ
  3. inherited from seely
  4. suffixed as sillification — “silly + fication

Definitions

  1. The process of making something silly.

    • I think I should find vulgarization less painful than the sillification achieved by the BBC.
    • Obviously, self-sillification should be avoided. Nevertheless, it takes a long time — many reiterations of "How do you know?" — to get a lawyer to look comical.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sillification. 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