princessification

English

Etymology

From princess +‎ -ification.

Noun

princessification (uncountable)

1. (informal) The process of making or becoming girly or hyperfeminine.
   • 2011 March 12, Emma Jane, “Princessification of girlhood gives this mum a pink fit”, in The Australian:

     But while I'm not convinced that pinkification and princessification is the same as sexualisation and pornification, I do think the stereotyped rhetoric accompanying the pink-quake is A Real Worry.

   • 2012 June 24, Clare Heal, “Milne’s music strikes right note”, in Daily Express:

     There are two reasons my feelings towards Disney are slightly frosty. First, I cannot stand the princessification (no, it’s not a word but it should be) of girls’ childhoods that has happened over the past couple of decades, something for which it is largely responsible.

   • 2013, "Glosswitch", "Don't be too quick to knock sugar-pink, prince-free, Disney-style princessification", New Statesman, 29 July 2013:

     Indeed, if anything, the sugary pink “princessification” of girlhood feels more extreme than ever.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:princessification.