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Celebrity vs Celebrification - What's the difference?

celebrity | celebrification |

As nouns the difference between celebrity and celebrification

is that celebrity is (label) a rite or ceremony while celebrification is (informal) the introduction of celebrity as a factor in some field or discipline.

celebrity

English

(Celebrity)

Noun

(celebrities)
  • (label) A rite or ceremony.
  • (label) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
  • A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population; a famous person ().
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}

    Synonyms

    * (fame) big name, distinction, eminence, renown * (person who has a high degree of recognition) big name, star, (informal) celeb, luminary, notable (noun)

    Related terms

    * celebutard

    celebrification

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) The introduction of celebrity as a factor in some field or discipline.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 3, author=Mark Leibovich, title=Titillating or Not, Washington Gossip Blossoms, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Chuck Todd, editor of the online political clearinghouse Hotline, calls the gossip phenomenon “pack gossip journalism,” a byproduct of the celebrification of politics and the attendant proliferation of media to cover it. }}