reification
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[edit] Etymology
c. 1846 Macaronic calque translation of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + Latin res (“thing”) for Dinglichung (“thingliness”)
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[edit] Noun
reification (plural reifications)
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
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[edit] Translations
consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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