Meanings
- uncountableThe process of making (something) fun.
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2005 March 14, Jeremiah Scott, “1964 Ford Fairlane 500 - Fairlane Funnification”, in Motor Trend3 more examples
Functional and economical thinking is too limited and the shallow 'funnification' of our culture that compensates for this even more so.
2002, Renny Ramakers, Less + More: Droog Design in Context, page 219The process of funnification taking place at the level of the self can be seen as analogous to the concept of "McDonalization" ^([sic]) (Ritzer, 2000) on the societal level.
2010, Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka, Dialogical Self Theory, page 291And then...well, the demon lord already likes Diamond's sense of funnification.
2011, Erica Hayes, Blood Cursed, page 17 - uncountableThe process of making (something) funny.
Situating vagrants in comic genres, in line with long-standing literary conventions involving the social hierarchy, promoted what I will call the " funnification" of poverty.
2001, Linda Woodbridge, Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature, page 201 more example
The exciting thing is that this mental process of 'funnification' applies to stuff in familiar comic forms (a clever satirical takedown of a politician we dislike, a succinct and recognisable nailing of an everyday experience, an ingenious pun, a neat turn of phrase, a precisely observed parody), but also to mad stuff that makes us laugh like drains, but which we cannot immediately explain.
2024, Joel Morris, Be Funny or Die
Origin
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