sportsification
English
Etymology
From sports + -ification.
Noun
sportsification (uncountable)
- The treating of a subject like sports; overemphasizing competition in an unnecessary way.
- 2012, Clay A. Johnson, The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, →ISBN, page 126:
- The “sportsification” of federal politics has made it so we treat elections like athletic rivalries, vilifying the other team at the expense of doing what's right for the country.
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See also
- sportify