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mastification

mastification is the misspelling of mastication.

mastification is the misspelling of massification.

Meaning of mastication

Noun

mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)

  1. The process of chewing.
    • “It is no more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat,” I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication. The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge...1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...
  2. The process of crushing as though chewed.

Meaning of massification

Noun

massification (countable and uncountable, plural massifications)

  1. The process of bringing something to a mass audience.
  2. Conversion of a count noun to a mass noun.

Questions about mastification

What is mastification the misspelling of?
Mastification is the misspelling of mastication.

Words near mastification in the dictionary

  1. mastidion
  2. mastiff
  3. mastiff bat
  4. mastiff bats
  5. mastiffs
  6. mastification
  7. mastigo-
  8. mastigoneme
  9. mastigonemes
  10. mastigont
  11. mastigonts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mastification (page history and authors); mastication (page history and authors); massification (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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