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demassify, v.
Brit. |(ˌ)diːˈmasɪfʌɪ|, U.S. |ˌdiˈmæsəˌfaɪ|
[‹ de- prefix + massify v.2]
trans. To divide or break up (a social, cultural, or political unit) into component parts; to make individualized or fragmentary. Also intr.
1970A. Toffler Future Shock xii. 250 Mass communication, under a system like this, is ‘de-massified’. We move from homogeneity to heterogeneity. 1986D. Howell Blind Victory xv. 134 Micro-computing power..de-massifies. 1990Harvard Business Rev. Mar.–Apr. 241/1 Computerized forces of production ‘demassify’ organizations. 1996L. D. Solomon Rethinking our Centralized Monetary Syst. iii. 27 The twenty-first and twenty-second centuries, with their attendant pressures to decentralize and demassify the political process, may resemble the political struggles in the early years of the Republic.
Derivatives. demassified adj.
1979N.Y. Times 20 Nov. b11/6 Mr. Toffler foresaw a ‘*demassified third wave’ civilization, opposed to the present ‘second wave industrialized’ society. 1991Details Apr. 38/3 The world's going from a mass society to a demassified one. |