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BEAUTIFICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beautification mean?
• BEAUTIFICATION (noun)
The noun BEAUTIFICATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of making something more beautiful
Familiarity information: BEAUTIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making something more beautiful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("beautification" is a kind of...):
change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beautification"):
beauty treatment (enhancement of someone's personal beauty)
glamorisation; glamorization; glamourisation; glamourization (the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way))
Derivation:
beautify (make more beautiful)
beautify (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)
beautify (be beautiful to look at)
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