massifiedadj.
/ˈmasᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈmæsəˌfaɪd/ Chiefly Sociology.
Culturally or socially homogeneous; characteristic of a society engaged in mass production; aimed at the masses, or at a mass market.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > process > specific
accultural1890
acculturative1915
acculturational1937
nativistic1937
schismogenic1949
massified1960
nativist1960
1960 S. Greer in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 524/1 Lower-status neighborhoods of low urbanism would be, not so much ‘massified and fragmented,’ as organized on the small-scale basis of the neighborhood.
1970 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 35 1031/2 The status structure, in particular the ‘massified’ wage.., is a final element contributing to the worker's lack of identification with the organization.
1991 Ann. Rev. Sociol. 17 508 We should not be surprised that high-level sport has been transformed into a commercialized, commodified, and massified phenomenon.
1998 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 1 Mar. 1 j While regional flavor is hardly extinct in the United States, the massified state of pop culture has certainly had a homogenizing effect.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1960