genericization
English
noun
Definitions
- The process of becoming generic.
- (legal) With respect to a trademark, the act or process of becoming so widely identified as a reference for a type of product as to cease representing a particular brand or manufacturer of that type of product.
Etymology
Suffix from English generic (relating to a genus).
Origin
English
generic
Gloss
relating to a genus
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bigeneric English
- biogeneric English
- cogeneric English
- extrageneric English
- generic English
- generically English
- genericide English
- genericise English
- genericism English
- genericity English
- genericize English
- genericness English
- generify English
- heterogeneric English
- infrageneric English
- intergeneric English
- intrageneric English
- monogeneric English
- multigeneric English
- non-generic English
- nongeneric English
- nongenerically English
- nongenericness English
- polygeneric English
- pseudogeneric English
- quadrigeneric English
- semigeneric English
- subgeneric English
- supergeneric English
- suprageneric English
- trigeneric English
- unigeneric English
- genus Latin
- generic
- generify
- bigeneric
- cogeneric
- genericism
- genericise
- nongeneric
- genericize
- biogeneric
- unigeneric
- genericity
- genericide
- trigeneric
- subgeneric
- semigeneric
- monogeneric
- genericness
- non-generic
- polygeneric
- generically
- supergeneric
- multigeneric
- suprageneric
- intrageneric
- infrageneric
- intergeneric
- extrageneric
- heterogeneric
- quadrigeneric
- pseudogeneric
- nongenerically
- nongenericness