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Reification

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n. The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

n. The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.

n. Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Materialization; objectivization; externalization; conversion of the abstract into the concrete; the regarding or treating of an idea as a thing, or as if a tiling.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality

n. regarding something abstract as a material thing

Word Usage

"Actually, I never said that before, and I had to look up the word reification, but you get the idea."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

objectification

Form

reify

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

proneness monomania