commodification

See also: commoditize

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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-Indo-European *médos
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
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Latin -ficō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ficātiō
Old French -ificationbor.
Middle English -ificacioun
English -ification
English commodification

    From commodify + -ification.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    commodification (countable and uncountable, plural commodifications)

    2. The assignment of a commercial value to something previously without such value.
      Near-synonyms: commercialization, monetization
      • 2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change:
        Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
      • 2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 February 2025:
        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.
    4. The transformation from being commercialized on a nonfungible basis into becoming a commodity that is fungible.
      Synonym: commoditization
      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.

    Usage notes

    Sometimes used interchangeably with commoditization (sense 2), and sometimes distinguished to have a sense of “non-commercial good becoming commercial” (sense 1); see commoditize § Usage notes.

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