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noun
Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: prettification
Antonyms: uglification
noun
the act of making something more beautiful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of state
Narrower terms: beauty treatment, glamorization, glamorisation, glamourization, glamourisation
History
First attested in 1600, from beautify (“to make beautiful”) + -ication.
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
