reification

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Synoniemen

hypostatisation

hypostatization

depersonalisation

realization

depersonalization

concretism

objectification

instantiation

Vertalingen

réification

reificação

Reifizierung

Verdinglichung

Reifikation

cosificación

Vergegenständlichung

reificazione

reificación

coisificação

Reificação

reificació

soyutlaştırma

تشيئ

cosificació

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/

Etymologie (Engels)

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