Noun
commodification (countable and uncountable, plural commodifications)
The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless.
I mean, the enclosures in Britain would never have happened without the king's army and without state brutality for pushing peasants off their ancestors' land and creating the commodification of labor, the commodification of land which then gave rise to capitalism. Yanis Varoufakis
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. Sufjan Stevens
Modern people may express outrage at the horrors of the African slave trade or the Holocaust, but in truth the commodification of human beings that made those atrocities possible is more prevalent today than ever before. Skye Jethani
Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered. Skye Jethani
We need to see beyond our culture; we need to peer through the bars of commodification and alienation and catch a glimpse of a God far larger than our circumstances. Skye Jethani
...When I'm not working, I safeguard my time to go into a dream state and not have to think about the commercialization of my art or the commodification of myself... Liz Phair