wussification

English

Etymology

wuss +‎ -ification

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Noun

wussification (uncountable)

1. (slang) The act or process of wussifying.
   • 2005, The American Interest, Volume 1‎^[1], page 96:

     The wussification of Texas is all about those little things.

   • 2006, Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones‎^[2], →ISBN, page 273:

     The tone, I think, reflects my general sense of growing wussification after deserting my old job at Les Halles.

   • 2007, Kinky Friedman, You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think‎^[3], →ISBN, page 51:

     That's because the media are always ready to side with the dark forces of wussification. And wussification, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, is political correctness's little sister.

   • 2012, Ed Rendell, chapter 22, in A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great‎^[4], →ISBN, page 173:

     There is no greater example of the wussification of America than than the growing neglect of our nation's infrastructure.