disneylandification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Thus it becomes inevitable that the border to kitsch and ‘Disneylandification’ will be crossed, quite often even under the formally correct surveillance of the authorities."
- "If it is the case elsewhere that the tourist industry has ‘touristified’ urban centres that already existed, subjecting them to a process of Disneylandification, Las Vegas is a tourist city created from scratch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, designed purely for the function of drawing in and accommodating tourists."
- "Residents distance themselves from the Disneylandification of the city"
Etymology
From Disneyland + -ification.