reification

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (countable, uncountable) The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
2. (countable, uncountable) The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
3. (countable, uncountable) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
4. (countable, uncountable) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

Konzepte

Vergegenständlichung

Verdinglichung

Reifikation

Reifizierung

Verdinglichen

Synonyme

hypostatisation

hypostatization

depersonalisation

realization

depersonalization

concretism

objectification

instantiation

Übersetzungen

réification

reificação

reificación

cosificación

reificazione

Reificação

reificació

coisificação

maddeleştirme

cisimleştirme

تشيء

soyutlaştırma

تشيئ

cosificació

chosification

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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