释义 |
mediocritization orig. U.S.|miːdɪˌɒkrɪtaɪˈzeɪʃən| [f. mediocrity: see -ize.] The action or process of rendering mediocre; reduction to a common level of mediocrity.
1970Esquire Aug. 124/4, I subscribe more to my own theory of our general mediocritization (or would if the word itself were less unwieldy). 1985N.Y. Times 15 Sept. i. 58/1 It had..led to what he called the ‘academic consumptive disease called mediocritization’. 1986Christian Science Monitor 17 Apr. 29/3 It leads to mediocritization and trivialization of theater. Hence [as back-formation] mediˈocritize v. trans., to render mediocre.
1972N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Sept. 50/2 The banal patter on the show is appalling... Everything is mediocritized. |