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Etymology [ edit ]

First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin res (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)

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Noun [ edit ]

reification (countable and uncountable, 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. ( programming ) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one. ( linguistics ) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

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Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living Chinese: Mandarin: 具象化

Finnish: konkretisointi

French: réification (fr)

German: Verdinglichung f , Vergegenständlichung f , Reifikation (de) f

, , Hebrew: חיפצון Korean: 실재화 ( siljaehwa )

Macedonian: опредметување n ( opredmetuvanje )

Norwegian: tingliggjøring

Portuguese: reificação (pt) f

Russian: реификация (ru) ( reifikacija )

Spanish: cosificación f , reificación f

, Turkish: cisimleştirme maddeleştirme soyutlaştırma

Consideration of a human being as an impersonal object