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Meaning of "Disneyfication" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISNEYFICATION

Disneyfication  [ˌdɪznɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISNEYFICATION

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Disneyfication is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISNEYFICATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Disneyfication

Disneyfication is a term which describes the transformation of something, usually society at large, to resemble The Walt Disney Company's theme parks. The latter term appears in Andre Kehoe's book, "Christian Contradictions and the World Revolution": "This bogus culture imposed hour after hour on the people by the media is a serious interference with free thinking and therefore free action. It is part of what Peter K Fallon of New York University, in an admirable phrase, calls the Disneyisation of society." The phrase later appears in Sharon Zukin's book, The Cultures of Cities, and was popularized by Alan Bryman in a 2004 book, The Disneyization of Society. Disneyfication of urban space is explored in Jeff Ferrell's Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy. Social scientists writing about urban transformation employ both terms. The terms are generally used in a negative way, and they imply homogenization of consumption, merchandising, and emotional labor. They can be used more broadly to describe the processes of stripping a real place or event of its original character and repackaging it in a sanitized format.

Definition of Disneyfication in the English dictionary

The definition of Disneyfication in the dictionary is the act of transforming historical places, local customs, etc into trivial entertainment for tourists.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISNEYFICATION


allocation
ˌæləˈkeɪʃən
application
ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən
authentication
ɔːˌθentɪˈkeɪʃən
certification
ˌsɜːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
classification
ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
communication
kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən
dedication
ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
education
ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən
identification
aɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
indication
ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃən
location
ləʊˈkeɪʃən
medication
ˌmɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
modification
ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
notification
ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
publication
ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən
qualification
ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
relocation
ˌriːləʊˈkeɪʃən
specification
ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
vacation
vəˈkeɪʃən
verification
ˌvɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISNEYFICATION

Disney
Disneyesque
Disneyfied
Disneyfies
Disneyfy
Disneyland

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISNEYFICATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
association
citation
combination
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
evaluation
excitation
federation
formation
foundation
generation

Synonyms and antonyms of Disneyfication in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Disneyfication» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISNEYFICATION

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The translations of Disneyfication from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Disneyfication» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

迪斯尼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disneyficación
570 millions of speakers

English

Disneyfication
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Disneyfication
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حديقة ملاهي ديزني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Disneyfication
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Disneyficação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Disneyfication
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

disneyfication
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Disneyfication
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

disneyfizierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Disneyfication
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디즈니 화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Disneyfication
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Disneyfication
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Disneyfication
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Disneyfication
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Disneyfication
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disneyficazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Disneyfication
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Disneyfication
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Disneyfication
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Disneyfication
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Disneyfication
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Disneyfication
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Disneyfication
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Disneyfication

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISNEYFICATION»

The term «Disneyfication» is normally little used and occupies the 149.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISNEYFICATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Disneyfication

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISNEYFICATION»

Discover the use of Disneyfication in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Disneyfication and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Issues in Americanisation and Culture
The. Disneyfication. of. the. European. Fairy. Tale. Jane Darcy Even our own students, occupying a halfway house between film critics and mass audience, are extremely resistant to critique of Disney film . . . These students consistently cite ...
Neil Campbell, Jude Davies, George McKay, 2004
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The Disneyization of Society
However, that possibility should not detract from the fact that Disneyfication is widely perceived in terms similar to those outlined above by Schickel, Walz, and other writers. Trivialization and sanitization It is the association of Disneyfication ...
Alan Bryman, 2004
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Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
Probably the most significant aspect of Disneyfication of animals is the projection of cultural stereotypes onto animal behavior. The members of the animal “ kingdom” are often used as a means for presenting male-dominated societies with ...
Marc Bekoff, Carron A. Meaney, 2013
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Disneyfication
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Gerd Numitor, 2012
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Public Indians, Private Cherokees: Tourism and Tradition on ...
5. Disneyfication. on. the. Boundary. One day in 2003, as I watched the Travel Channel, a commercial for an up- coming program about the castles of Switzerland came on. As the camera panned over the snowcapped Alps and the lush river ...
Christina Taylor Beard-Moose, 2009
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Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation
Charlie. Thorson. and. the. Temporary. Disneyfication. of. Warner. Bros. Cartoons . GENE WALZ We all borrow from each other in this business. — FILM DIRECTOR MICHAEL POWELL IN THE SPRING of 1938, Charlie Thorson left a secure ...
Kevin S. Sandler, 1998
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Spy
DISNEYFICATION n (1994): the act or instance of assuming, through the process of assimilation, the traits and characteristics more familiarly associated with a theme park (i.e., Disney World) than with real life. To fully understand ...
8
American Foundational Myths
Ginsberg,. Ferlinghetti. and. the. De-Disneyfication. of. America. Martin Heusser Not far from the entrance gates, on the main square, visitors to the newly opened Disneyland would find a plaque dated July 17th, 1955, with a short inscription, ...
Martin Heusser, Gudrun Grabher, 2002
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Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times
Disneyfication tends to be used critically. Spy magazine, for instance, defines Disneyfication as “the act of assuming, through the process of assimilation, the traits and characteristics more familiarly associated with a theme park than with real ...
David Lyon, 2013
10
Service Work: Critical Perspectives
For Schickel,then, Disneyfication referredtothe often criticized way in which Walt Disney, his coworkers and their successors put an original work through a Disney mincer to emerge with a distorted version of it. The outcome of the process was ...
Cameron MacDonald, Marek Korczynski, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISNEYFICATION»

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Lewis: It's not Disney World, but there will be magic in the air in …
There'll be no Disneyfication of the Manning Passing Academy. While Thibodaux and Nicholls State may seem an unlikely location for some ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
2
In Sondheim's 'Into the Woods,' no one is alone
Larsen: I think because of the Disneyfication of fairy tales, a lot of audience members get to the end of the first act (when the storylines seem to ... «Fresno Bee, Jul 15»
3
Beal's legacy: Secure future for transformed DIA
... 2007 grand reopening, some publications like the Art Newspaper of London sniffed that Beal's plans represented a sort of "Disneyfication.". «The Detroit News, Jun 15»
4
The Lion King: A feast for the senses
... a bit on the silly side, and the Disneyfication of the Dark Continent might seem spread a bit thick for anyone who caught the recent production ... «Business in Vancouver, Jun 15»
5
Michael Riedel's 'Razzle Dazzle: The Battle For Broadway …
That would be followed by the eventual Disneyfication of Times Square and Hollywood's return to the 42nd Street fold when producers like ... «Deadline, Jun 15»
6
On the Confederate Flag
Welcome to the Disneyfication of American social media, where every single person, place or thing is either good or evil and there's no middle ... «FOXSports.com, Jun 15»
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Red light for Soho amid gentrification fears
... disappeared, and quite honestly no one wants to go back to that, but at the same time there is a level of almost what I call 'Disneyfication'.”. «Property Week, Jun 15»
8
I Love My Wife Musical by Cy Coleman.
Cut forward to the late 90s, and The Life, a musical that explores the underbelly of Times Square's 42nd Street pre-Disneyfication. Whilst the ... «London Theatre Guide - Online, Jun 15»
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'Jaws' author Peter Benchley became shark advocate
And he blamed me for a lot of the Disneyfication of sharks." Among sharks' worst enemies these days are the media, as became very clear in ... «The News-Press, Jun 15»
10
A terrible 'Moment' for Tomlin & Travolta
... but featuring Scott and Woodward in appealing performances and fantastic glimpses of Times Square and 42nd Street prior to Disneyfication. «CT News, Jun 15»

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