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sportification

sportification is the alternative form of sportsification.

Meaning of sportsification

Noun

sportsification (uncountable)

  1. The treating of a subject like sports; overemphasizing competition in an unnecessary way.
    • The “sportsification” of federal politics has made it so we treat elections like athletic rivalries, vilifying the other team at the expense of doing what's right for the country.2012, Clay A. Johnson, The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, →ISBN, page 126

Questions about sportification

What is sportification the alternative form of?
Sportification is the alternative form of sportsification.

Words near sportification in the dictionary

  1. sportfulness
  2. Sportianity
  3. sportier
  4. sportiest
  5. sportif
  6. sportification
  7. sportified
  8. sportifies
  9. sportifs
  10. sportify
  11. sportifying

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