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glamorization

noun

glamorization is a noun meaning “The act of glamorizing, or something glamorized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-A-M-O-R-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glamorization is glamorizations.

What does glamorization mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act of glamorizing, or something glamorized.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of glamorization

  • glamorizations plural
  • glamorisation
  • glamourisation
  • glamourization

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is glamorization?

Glamorization appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does glamorization come from?

From glamor + -ization.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).