Reification Definition

reifications

noun

reifications

The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

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The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.

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(programming) Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one.

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reification

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reifications

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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