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Monsterization vs Zombification - What's the difference?

monsterization | zombification | Hypernyms |

Zombification is a hypernym of monsterization.



As nouns the difference between monsterization and zombification

is that monsterization is the transformation of something or someone into a monster either literally or figatuvely while zombification is the act or process of zombifying.

monsterization

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • the transformation of something or someone into a monster either literally or figatuvely
  • * 1999 , Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages , page 132
    • A similar but less spectacular technology of monsterization propels the representation of Islam in England, where the "Saracen threat" never encroached and therefore was always in danger of seeming fantastic and remote.
  • * 2003 , Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity , page 25
    • Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose
  • * 2006 , Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
    • “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization .
    Cultural anthropologists undoubtedly relish in the study of the monsterization of Michael Jackson.

    Synonyms

    *demonization *vilification

    Related terms

    *monsterise *monsterize

    zombification

    English

    Noun

  • The act or process of zombifying.
  • * 1988 , Wade Davis, Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
    • Both the threat and the fact of zombification confer on the bokor a potent means of social control, if he chooses to use it.

    Hypernyms

    * monsterization