-fication

1. a combining form of nouns of action or state corresponding to verbs ending in -fy: deification; pacification.

Word History and Origins

Origin of -fication¹

< Latin -ficātiōn- (stem of -ficātiō ) a making, equivalent to -ficā ( re ) -fy + -tiōn- -tion; in some words replacing Middle English -ficacioun < Anglo-French

Example Sentences

And if there’s any kind of silver lining to our city’s rampant condo­-fication, here it is: “They built one of these condominiums behind my house a year and a half ago,” Settles says, “and every morning, those guys were out there, putting it together, bit by bit. One day, I look up, and it’s complete. I was inspired by that. I’d go to bed earlier so I could get up earlier and do some work.”

From Washington Post

Ocean acidi­fication, warming marine temperatures, mega-cyclones and a Texas-size gyre of floating trash imperil the region’s marine life.

From New York Times

Is the Kaiser‒fication of U.S. healthcare a desirable and achievable goal?

From Forbes

Either the modification of a given base is different in each of the kingdoms, or a given base is modified in one kingdom and in another kingdom the modi­fication is made to an adjacent base.

From Scientific American

The London Review, in an article on the tendency in modern literature to the re­vival of ghost stories, suggests to the wri­ters that as a veri­fication they obtain photographs of their spectral visitors.

From Scientific American