Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

genrefication

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gen-refi-ca-tion
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Shelving of library books or similar works based on genre.

Uncountable

noun

Softening of boundaries between literary fiction and genre fiction.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Genrefication is pretty great. It allows users to find books they're interested in much more easily."
"Under the Dewey Decimal System that revolutionized and standardized book shelving starting in 1876, nonfiction essentially already gets the genrefication treatment with, for example, Music located in the 780s and Paleontology in the 560s."
"For reasons that aren’t fully explicable (Netflix? Tumblr? Kindles? Postmodernism?), it’s no longer taken for granted that important novels must be, in some sense, above, beyond, or “meta” about their genre. A process of genrefication is occurring."
"The so-called ‘genrefication’ or ‘genre debate’ relates to the relationship between popular fiction and literary fiction, and has been of particular significance in US literary circles in recent years."

Etymology

From genre + -fication. In the sense of softening boundaries, coined by Joshua Rothman in 2014.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does genrefication mean?: Shelving of library books or similar works based on genre.
Where does genrefication come from?: From genre + -fication. In the sense of softening boundaries, coined by Joshua Rothman in 2014.

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