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Hypostatization vs Reification - What's the difference?

hypostatization | reification | Synonyms |

Reification is a synonym of hypostatization.



As nouns the difference between hypostatization and reification

is that hypostatization is reification while reification is the consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

hypostatization

English

Noun

  • reification

    • reification

    English

    Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * hypostatization * objectification * pathetic fallacy * thingification

    Derived terms

    * reify