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princessification
princessification
English
Noun
princessification (uncountable)
- The process of making or becoming girly or hyperfeminine.
- 2011, Emma Jane, "Princessification of girlhood gives this mum a pink fit", The Australian, 12 March 2011:
- But while I'm not convinced that pinkification and princessification is the same as sexualisation and pornification, I do think the stereotyped rhetoric accompanying the pink-quake is A Real Worry.
- 2012, Clare Heal, "Milne’s music strikes right note", Daily Express, 24 June 2012:
- There are two reasons my feelings towards Disney are slightly frosty. First, I cannot stand the princessification (no, it’s not a word but it should be) of girls’ childhoods that has happened over the past couple of decades, something for which it is largely responsible.
- 2013, "Glosswitch", "Don't be too quick to knock sugar-pink, prince-free, Disney-style princessification", New Statesman, 29 July 2013:
- Indeed, if anything, the sugary pink “princessification” of girlhood feels more extreme than ever.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:princessification.
- 2011, Emma Jane, "Princessification of girlhood gives this mum a pink fit", The Australian, 12 March 2011: