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Disneylandification

Disneylandification noun: the process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.

Noun

Disneylandification

  1. (informal) The process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.
    • Thus it becomes inevitable that the border to kitsch and ‘Disneylandification’ will be crossed, quite often even under the formally correct surveillance of the authorities.2010, Susanne Oberheu, Michael Wadenpohl, Cappadocia: A Travel Guide Through the Land of Fairychimneys and Rock Castles, →ISBN, page 26
    • If it is the case elsewhere that the tourist industry has ‘touristified’ urban centres that already existed, subjecting them to a process of Disneylandification, Las Vegas is a tourist city created from scratch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, designed purely for the function of drawing in and...2021, Marco D'Eramo, The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 127
    Synonyms:
    theme parking

Synonyms of Disneylandification

Origin of Disneylandification

From Disneyland + -ification.

Questions about Disneylandification

What does Disneylandification mean?
Disneylandification means the process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.
What part of speech is Disneylandification?
Disneylandification is a noun.

Words near Disneylandification in the dictionary

  1. Disneyize
  2. Disneyized
  3. Disneyizes
  4. Disneyizing
  5. Disneyland
  6. Disneylandification
  7. Disneylands
  8. Disneyness
  9. Disneyphile
  10. Disneyphiles
  11. Disneyphilia

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