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Kardashianization

Kardashianization noun: the process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.

Noun

Kardashianization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.
    • 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 18A
    • Merida, 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...2013 May 7, Beth Kassab, “Disney’s glam makeovers send wrong message”, in Orlando Sentinel, page B1

Examples of Kardashianization in a sentence

  • 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):
  • That’s the essence of the Kardashianization of girlhood.2017 April 5, C.J., quoting Peggy Orenstein, “Peggy Orenstein aims to overthrow the ‘princess industrial complex’”, in Star Tribune, volume...
  • The Kardashianization of America was complete.2020, Richard Dresser, It Happened Here, Brown Books Publishing Group, →ISBN:
  • Search in Instagram: in the lower classes you find a false beauty, which is what I call Kardashianization.2021, Chiara Pussetti, quoting an Argentinian makeup artist, “Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of Whiteness”, in Alvaro...

Origin of Kardashianization

From Kardashian + -ization.

Questions about Kardashianization

What does Kardashianization mean?
Kardashianization means the process of making or becoming like the Kardashian family or their products or self-promotion.
How do you use Kardashianization in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is Kardashianization?
Kardashianization is a noun.

Words near Kardashianization in the dictionary

  1. Kardashev scale
  2. Kardashian
  3. Kardashian index
  4. Kardashian-esque
  5. Kardashianesque
  6. Kardashianization
  7. Kardashians
  8. Kardecism
  9. Kardecist
  10. Kardecists
  11. Kardella

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