kardashianization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Mock the gossip-monger for his or her obsession with celebrity in supermarket’s magazine aisle, but what we witnessed last week was the Kardashianization of our sports-news cycle, swallowed as it was by Scorn’d Sports Consumer."
- "Merida, the sweet, independent princess from “Brave,” will officially join the Disney Princess Royal Court on Saturday. Translation from Disney-speak: Merida is about to get her glam on. Off-the-shoulder gown. Eyeliner. Lipstick. Wild red curls tamed into voluminous sexy locks. A coy expression enhanced by her new, fuller lips. This is the Kardashian-ization of the Disney Princess."
- "The U.S. now wheezes beneath the crushing weight of lawsuits, environmental impact reports, diversity consultants, a $17 trillion national debt, entitlement proliferation, lethargic economic growth, the lowest labor-participation rate since 1979, relentless Twitter distractions, and the mind-dissolving effects of Kardashianization."
- "But [Minnie] Driver’s still wary of what she calls the “Kardashianization” of children of the famous, of putting them in magazine spreads and on reality shows, of using them to promote films and clothing lines."
- "With America in it's waning days, as total economic collapse nears, America is focused on Bruce Jenner's cover photo on Vanity Fair. It is the Kardashianization of America, as California runs out of water, the Kardashians can not be shamed into turning off their sprinklers on their palatial green landscapes."
- ""They inaugurated the era of cheesy celebrity obsession which pertains today," he says. "There is lineage from them to the Kardashianisation not only of the music industry, but the wider culture.""
Etymology
From Kardashian + -ization.