reification
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
reification
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
- French: réification
- German: Verdinglichung, Vergegenständlichung, Reifikation
- Portuguese: reificação
- Russian: реификация
- Spanish: cosificación, reificación
- German: Reifizierung
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