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The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: depersonalization, depersonalisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: objectification
regarding something abstract as a material thing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hypostatization, hypostatisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: objectification
First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
материализиране
(materializirane)
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Chinese Mandarin:
具象化
(jùxiànghuà)
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Finnish:
konkretisointi
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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French:
réification
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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German:
Verdinglichung
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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German:
Vergegenständlichung
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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German:
Reifikation
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Greek:
υποστατοποίηση
(ypostatopoíisi)
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Hebrew:
חיפצון
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Korean:
실재화
(siljaehwa)
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Macedonian:
опредметување
(opredmetuvanje)
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Norwegian:
tingliggjøring
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Portuguese:
reificação
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Russian:
реификация
(reifikacija)
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Spanish:
cosificación
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Spanish:
reificación
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Turkish:
cisimleştirme
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Turkish:
maddeleştirme
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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Turkish:
soyutlaştırma
— Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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German:
Reifizierung
— programming: Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one
