noun coined here
com·post·i·fi·CA·tion
Generative decay; breakdown that is the point. The dead thing becoming the material of the next thing.
Two years of compostification, and the failed company had fed four better ones.
Etymologycompost + -ification. Compost is Latinate — from compositum, 'something put together' — so the Latin suffix is coming home rather than crashing a Germanic party. Same root as composite, compound, composition, compote.
NoteThe only honest agent-deletion in the collection. Every other -ification here hides a hand that really exists; nothing decomposes a compost pile. The agentless suffix finally describes an agentless process.
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