Commodifies

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To turn non-commercial entities, experiences, or values into marketable goods, creating a profit-driven framework for their exchange To alter the essence of cultural or personal elements, transforming them into tradable items in a market economy To modify intrinsic qualities of various aspects of life, reshaping them into commodities that can be bought, sold, or traded for profit
2. Transforms things not originally meant for sale into items that can be bought and sold for profit
3. Converts ideas, services, or cultural aspects into goods or services exchanged in markets

Etymology: "Commodify" is a plain formation: "commodity" with the suffix "-ify", which turns a noun into a verb meaning "make into" something. The verb "commodify" therefore means to make something into a commodity, a thing to be bought and sold. The base noun has a longer history. "Commodity" comes through Anglo-Norman "commoditee" and Middle English "commoditee" from Latin "commoditās", a noun built on "commodus", meaning "suitable, convenient, advantageous". That adjective is itself a compound of "com-" and "modus", "measure" or "due measure". So the original idea was of something fitting or handy, and only later did the sense narrow to goods for trade. The word in its modern sense is what a verb built on it describes: the process of reducing something, whether a good, a service, or even a person or an idea, to a product with a price.

Synonyms: commercializes, monetizes, trivializes, objectifies, materializes

Antonyms: decommodifies, dematerializes, disregards, neglects, undervalue