reification

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

reifications

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)(programming) 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)(linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

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Đồng nghĩa

hypostatizationmaterialization objectificationpathetic fallacythingification

Cùng gốc / liên quan

reificationalreificatorydereificationreify

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Nguồn gốc từ

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