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Inanimate vs Reification - What's the difference?

inanimate | reification |

As nouns the difference between inanimate and reification

is that inanimate is something that is not alive while reification is the consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

As an adjective inanimate

is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .

As a verb inanimate

is (obsolete) to animate .

inanimate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
  • Not being, and never having been alive.
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  • (grammar) Not animate.

    • Antonyms

    * (grammar) animate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not alive.

    • Verb

    (inanimat)
  • (obsolete) To animate.
    • (John Donne)
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    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