Californication

English Alternative forms en Californiation Californification Etymology From en California<alt:Californ(ia)> -ication. First use appears c. 1947. Especially popularized by the use as title for a Californication (song) song (1999) and a Californication (TV series) TV series (2007–2014). Sexual sense either directly from a en California fornication 1 or en 1 as en Cali#Etymology_1 fornication. Pronunciation en /ˌkælɪˈfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃən/ UK en /ˌkælɪˈfɔɹnɪˈkeɪʃən/ US en eɪʃən 6 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Californication.wav US Noun - The adoption of practices and beliefs associated with California, in particular Hollywood and Silicon Valley. en Californianization Californification en 1992 Ien Ang; John Hartley Cultural Studies Useful Astonishment 458 Indeed, if popular culture can be said to be dispersed in a process of global Californication, then no less should intellectual culture be seen as the product of the Routledgification of the world[.] en http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/usa.comment God's crucible 2003-08-14 Timothy Garton Ash w:The Guardian Alternatively, one could hope that Californication works: that large numbers of people of immensely diverse racial, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds really can mix and blend while yet retaining a sufficiently common civic culture for America to survive as a free, democratic and self-confident nation. So we should learn from the Americans. What Europe needs is more Californication. https://web.archive.org/web/20210226170225/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/usa.comment en humorous sexual intercourse in California or in a Californian style. en 1947 The Golden Voice - A Biography of Isaac Kalloch M. Marion Marberry 311 Isaac was pictured as the only male in the state who could satisfy his many succubi, and the Californication took place on his couch in City Hall, in the Temple, in saloons, in his carriage, in his home, oh, just anywhere. en 1999 w:Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (song) Californication Californication (album) Californication A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information / And buy me a star on the boulevard, it's Californication en US derogatory urban studies The large-scale development of land; urban sprawl. en a. 1981 Coda: Poets and Writers Newsletter 17 It's also culturally unique, its natives resisting many elements of "californication", the "glintzy" urban sprawl typified by Los Angeles. en Dan L[ouie] Flores A Long Love Affair with an Uncommon Country: Environmental History and the Great Plains Fred B. Samson; Fritz L. Knopf Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America’s Most Endangered Ecosystem Washington, D.C.; Covelo, Calif. w:Island Press 1996 part 1 (Value in Prairie) 5 https://archive.org/details/prairieconservat0000unse/page/5/mode/1up 9781559634281 If the intermountain West, from New Mexico to Montana, is today running scared of growth and Californication, the Great Plains is a large slice of the West that does not share that particular fear. en D. J. Waldie Do the Voters Really Hate Sprawl? w:The New York Times 2000-03-03 https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/opinion/do-the-voters-really-hate-sprawl.html 0362-4331 Thirty years ago, voters in Portland, Ore., adopted strict growth limits to prevent “Californication” of their landscape. Circumscribed by the nation's first “urban growth boundary,” the Portland region made itself an artificial island on the land with the explicit goal of not becoming another L.A. https://web.archive.org/web/20211102145158/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/03/opinion/do-the-voters-really-hate-sprawl.html en Related terms en Californianization Californicate Mexifornication See also en Los Angelization Further reading Californication (word) en California, USA