happification

English

Etymology

From happ(y) +‎ -ification.

Noun

happification (usually uncountable, plural happifications)

1. (rare, nonstandard) The process of happifying or becoming happy.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 42:

     Now she's just an agoraphobic workaholic and obsessive-compulsive. This strikes you as happification?

   • 1997 November 6, Ru Igarashi, “A question of BLIND FAITH in Disney and P. Mononoke”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I don't like the song-and-dance, I don't like the cutifications, I don't like the happifications, etc.

Related terms

• happify