Commodify

Quick meaning: Commodify is a verb meaning (transitive) To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.

Meaning

(transitive) To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.

Example Sentences

Our attention spans have been chopped up and commodified, sold off piecemeal to platforms and algorithms. We’re too busy, too lazy, too preoccupied to lose ourselves in books.

The T-shirt is white, with a simple message, “Freedom,” rendered in plain black letters across the chest. It’s also now widely available for sale, indicative of an internet culture that instantaneously commodifies any significant event.

With over 160 lavish full-color images, 20 mouth-watering recipes, and 40 essays on food, love, and life, La Figa is a genuine treat for the senses and an invitation to approach something that's been overly functionalized and commodified with a little bit more playfulness, poignancy, and poetry.

As capitalism, especially in its current neoliberal and globalized form, seeks to commodify the world, to transform everything existing—earth, water, air, living creatures, the human body, human relationships, love, religion—into commodities, so advertising aims to sell those commodities by forcing living individuals to serve the commercial necessities of capital.

Word Forms

• commodifies
• commodifying
• commodified

Synonyms for commodify

Depending on context, synonyms include commercialize, commoditize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commoditize, commoditise, recommodify, commercialize, consumerize, corporatize.

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