cutification

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noun

The formation of cuticles.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

cutification1

nouncutification (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe formation of cuticles.

cutification2

nouncutification (usually uncountable, plural cutifications)

plural cutifications

  1. nonstandarduncountableusuallyThe process of cutifying or becoming cute.

    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 Modern Cultural Studies, volume 16, number 3, Philadelphia, P.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31
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    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 (Usenet)

    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, “Cute Enough to Eat: The Transformation of Animals into Meat for Human Consumption in Commercialized Images”, in Humanity & Society, volume 31, number 4, Thousands Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 349

Origin

cutification · noun

  1. Latin*cutificāre
  2. Englishcutification

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cutification,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cutification.

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