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mercification

mercification noun: the transformation into a setting for and about buying and selling; commercialization; consumerization.

Noun

mercification (uncountable)

  1. The transformation into a setting for and about buying and selling; commercialization; consumerization.
    • Let us not forget that, from another point of view, the body, through the economics of self-care (from diets to body building, from ayurvedic care to extreme sports) acquires grandeur, social representativeness, and excellence like animated self-advertising ware in the expanding universe of...2009, Bianca Maria Pirani, Ivan Varga, The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies, →ISBN, page 100
    • The "generic city" is the city of shopping and leisure which has increasingly claimed in modern cities to simulate reality. And indeed this phenomenon of intense mercification of society has dissolved the relationship between urbs, the city meant as a physical place, and civitas, the city as the...2009, Giovanni Maciocco, Silvia Serreli, Enhancing the City.: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure, →ISBN

Examples of mercification in a sentence

  • And indeed this phenomenon of intense mercification of society has dissolved the relationship between urbs, the city meant as a physical place, and civitas, the city as the society inhabiting it.2009, Giovanni Maciocco, Silvia Serreli, Enhancing the City.: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure, →ISBN:
  • This character relies also on its architecture, but specifically on "its regional mercification", represented by disco-pubs, piadina booths and historic restaurants serving good fish.2010, Alessandro Bucci, Luigi Mollo, Regional Architecture in the Mediterranean Area, →ISBN, page 291:
  • The flâneur is a kind of rebel contrasting mercification, yet he is also consumer and producer himself.2016, Timothy Shortell, Evrick Brown, Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography, →ISBN:

Questions about mercification

What does mercification mean?
Mercification means the transformation into a setting for and about buying and selling; commercialization; consumerization.
How do you use mercification in a sentence?
And indeed this phenomenon of intense mercification of society has dissolved the relationship between urbs, the city meant as a physical place, and civitas, the city as the society inhabiting it.
What part of speech is mercification?
Mercification is a noun.

Words near mercification in the dictionary

  1. mercie
  2. mercied
  3. Mercier
  4. Merciers
  5. mercies
  6. mercification
  7. mercified
  8. mercifies
  9. mercifixion
  10. merciful
  11. mercifull

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