sillification en · NOUN
Etymology
From silly + -fication.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The process of making something silly.
Obviously, self-sillification should be avoided. Nevertheless, it takes a long time — many reiterations of "How do you know?" — to get a lawyer to look comical.
2007, Priscilla Anne Schwab, The Litigation Manual: First Supplement, page 1149:I think I should find vulgarization less painful than the sillification achieved by the BBC.
19 June 1957, J. R. R. Tolkien, letter to Rayner Unwin: