Dictionary

commodification en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəˌmɒ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəˌmɑ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin commoditāsder. Anglo-Norman commoditeebor. Middle English commoditee English commodity Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English commodify Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -ficātiō Old French -ificationbor. Middle English -ificacioun English -ification English commodification From commodify + -ification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
   • Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification. 2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change:
   • One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history. 2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times:
   • Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
2. (countable, uncountable) The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
   • A company that innovates to achieve the commercialization of a technology often must shift strategy some decades later in response to the advent of that technology's commodification.

Forms

Deriveds

decommodification · recommodification · noncommodification

Relateds

commodityism · consumerization · commodify

Synonyms

commercialization · monetization · commoditization

Translations (6)

es comodificación (DPD) (Translations) · es mercantilización (Translations) · pl komercjalizacja (Translations) · ko 상품화 (Translations) · pl utowarowienie (Translations) · pl komodyfikacja (Translations)