reificatory

English

Etymology

reification +‎ -ory

Adjective

reificatory (comparative more reificatory, superlative most reificatory)

1. That reifies.
   • 2002, Heidrun Friese, Aleida Assmann, Identities: Time, Difference, and Boundaries, →ISBN, page 190:

     For one, the reification of cultural identities can be a political necessity in the pursuit of equal rights: precisely because the reificatory discourse is the dominant one in the politics of representation, both political and mediatic, it is a useful resource in challenging established inequalities.

   • 2003, Dick Pels, Unhastening Science, →ISBN:

     His conceptualization eschews some crucial normative and epistemological distinctions between various forms or modalities of translation, especially between stronger and weaker ones (or reificatory and non-reificatory ones) and, in doing so, impairs our ability to evaluate them, viz. of choosing the side of the weak.

   • 2013, Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler, Josef Quitterer, The Ways Things Are: Studies in Ontology, →ISBN, page 129:

     Note that wherever, above, I have spoken about 'time' and 'times', I should be understood to have done so entirely without reificatory intent.