Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cutification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cu-ti-fi-ca-tion
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The formation of cuticles.

Uncountable

noun

The process of cutifying or becoming cute.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I don't like the song-and-dance, I don't like the cutifications, I don't like the happifications, etc."
"There is also striking resemblance between the cutification of animals and the cutification of women (portraying pubescent women or women as girlish or "baby-dollish") in advertisements."
"In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare charts the inevitable cutification of political myth."

Etymology

Related to cutis (“the true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis”) or cuticle; The Oxford English Dictionary proposes a connection to hypothetical Latin *cutificāre.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *cutificāre
Suffix: cute

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

cutifications (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

cutify

Questions

What does cutification mean?: The formation of cuticles.
Where does cutification come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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