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Gentrification vs Generification - What's the difference?

gentrification | generification |

As nouns the difference between gentrification and generification

is that gentrification is the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents while generification is (archaic) generalization.

gentrification

English

(wikipedia gentrification)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.

    • Related terms

    * degentrification

    See also

    * gentrify * gentry

    generification

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archaic) generalization
    • Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification . — Sir W. Hamilton.
  • (computing) The process of making generic; conversion to use generics.
    • (Webster 1913)