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gamification

gamification noun: the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications (as for example making work less onerous; incentivization; or pedagogy).

Noun

gamification (countable and uncountable, plural gamifications)

  1. The use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications (as for example making work less onerous; incentivization; or pedagogy).
    • Homelessness could be helped or fixed, she knew, once the gamification of shelter allotment and public housing in general was complete.2013, Dave Eggers, The Circle, Vintage Books, page 373
    • You could see this in the way maxxing strategies pointed to extremes — not just unsettling ones (eating disorders, height surgeries, high-octane misogyny), but also this weird gamification of mundane social tactics your parents already told you about (wash your face, wear a decent shirt, get some...2025 October 11, Nitsuh Abebe, “The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

gamification meaning in Malay and Indonesian

gamification in Malay

use of gameplay
gamifikasi

gamification in Indonesian

use of gameplay
gamifikasi, pembermainan, pengegiman

Forms of gamification

pluralgamifications

Origin of gamification

From gam(e) + -ification.

Questions about gamification

What does gamification mean?
Gamification means the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications (as for example making work less onerous; incentivization; or pedagogy).
What is gamification in Malay?
Gamification in Malay is gamifikasi. See Gamification meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is gamification?
Gamification is a noun.
What is the plural of gamification?
The plural of gamification is gamifications.

Words near gamification in the dictionary

  1. gamie
  2. gamier
  3. gamies
  4. gamiest
  5. gamifiable
  6. gamification
  7. gamifications
  8. gamified
  9. gamifies
  10. gamify
  11. gamifying

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