Meanings
- uncountableThe process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.
"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."
2016 July 7, John McKie, “How the Spice effect still packs punch”, in BBC News5 more examples
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.
2013 January 20, Dan Le Batard, “When kings of our sports world turn into jesters”, in The Miami Herald, 110th year, number 128, page 18AMerida, 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.
2013 May 7, Beth Kassab, “Disney’s glam makeovers send wrong message”, in Orlando Sentinel, page B1The 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.
2013 June 16, Deroy Murdock, “Elevation of the average has killed U.S. spirit”, in The Gleaner, 129th year, number 144, Henderson, Ky., page 4ABut [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.
2014 May 12, Donna Freydkin, “Minnie Driver will ‘Zero’ in on ‘hard story’”, in Lansing State Journal, page 8BWith 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.
2015 June 2, cicero venatio, “America today: "Call me Caitlyn."”, in alt.politics.elections (Usenet)
Origin
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Kardashianization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kardashianization
“Kardashianization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kardashianization. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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