reification

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

réification

chosification

Synonymes

hypostatisation

hypostatization

depersonalisation

realization

depersonalization

concretism

objectification

instantiation

Traductions

reificação

Reifikation

Verdinglichung

Reifizierung

reificazione

Vergegenständlichung

reificación

cosificación

reificació

coisificação

Reificação

soyutlaştırma

تشيئ

cosificació

Verdinglichen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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