dictionarization

English

Etymology

From dictionary +‎ -ization.

Noun

dictionarization (uncountable)

1. The act of adding (something) to a dictionary.

   The goal of Wiktionary is to achieve the dictionarization of every language.

   • 1977 May, Paul Remley, “Gamenung Mid Wordum”, in Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, volume 10, number 2, Morristown, N.J.: A. Ross Eckler Jr., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67:

     The unprecedented standardization (and dictionarization) of language has allowed the logologist to view words as combinations and permutations of graphemic units. Wordplay has taken on the cold precision and theorization of modern mathematics.

See also

• lexicography