Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barbification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: barb-i-fi-ca-tion
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of Barbiefication.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Where Alexander Lebed identifies the enemy of Russian culture as the soap opera, Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski attributes the erosion of Baltic culture to ‘Barbification’ and cultural imports such as dolls, comic strips and cable TV[…]."
"[W]e must now resist anachronistic legislation and the Barbification of young women, the saddest phenomenon being the identical non-identifiable missing photos of girls and women surgically and cosmetically altered to resemble dolls."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does barbification mean?: Alternative spelling of Barbiefication.

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