cutification
The formation of cuticles.
Noun
- The formation of cuticles.
Origin
Related to cutis (“the true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis”) or cuticle; The Oxford English Dictionary proposes a connection to hypothetical Latin *cutificāre.
Noun nonstandard, uncountable
- The process of cutifying or becoming cute.
- I don't like the song-and-dance, I don't like the cutifications, I don't like the happifications, etc. - 1997 November 6, Ru Igarashi, “A question of BLIND FAITH in Disney and P. Mononoke”, in rec.arts.anime.misc...
- 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. - 2007 November, Liz Grauerholz,...
- In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare charts the inevitable cutification of political myth. - 2016 Summer, Colby Gordon, “Candied Cleopatra: The Cute Aesthetics of Shakespeare's Political Theology”, in Journal for Early...
Origin
From cut(e) + -ification.