reification
Significado (Inglés)
- (countable, uncountable) The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- (countable, uncountable) The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
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Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)
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