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demassification

[dee-mas-uh-fahy]

de·mas·si·fy

[dee-mas-uh-fahy]
verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.
1.
to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
2.
to break (something standardized or homogeneous) into elements that appeal to individual tastes or special interests: to demassify the magazine industry into special-interest periodicals.
Also, de-mas·si·fy.


Origin:
de- + mass + -ify

de·mas·si·fi·ca·tion, noun
de·mas·si·fi·er, noun
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Demassification is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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