worsification

English

Etymology 1

From worse +‎ -ification.

Noun

worsification (countable and uncountable, plural worsifications)

1. (humorous, nonstandard) The process by which something becomes worse.

   Near-synonym: shittification

   Antonym: (nonstandard) goodification

   • 1946, James Agate, Ego 8: Continuing the Autobiography, Sydney, N.S.W. […]: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd., page 229:

     I shouldn't mind these well-intentioned worsifications. But I just don't believe they happen.

   • 1999 September 4, Icono Clast, “we just got here”, in ba.consumers‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I'm not a xenophobe, Musette. I've seen what's happened to my home and its environs and I don't like it. In spite of all the worsification and uglyfying and franchisation that's happened here, it's still better than elsewhere.

   • 2002 June 30, BHaber, “disaster streak”, in rec.games.go‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I know I could improve. Just during phases of intense worsification there is no HOPE of improving. Big difference : )

Related terms

• worsify

Etymology 2

Blend of worse +‎ versification.

Noun

worsification (uncountable)

1. (humorous, archaic) The act of composing poetic verse poorly; bad versification.
   • 1849 December, [J. R. Lowell], “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, volume III, number IX (review), page 51:

     Since we have found fault with some of what we may be allowed to call the worsification, we should say that the prose work is done conscientiously and neatly.

References

• “worsification, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.