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Materialization vs Reification - What's the difference?

materialization | reification |

As nouns the difference between materialization and reification

is that materialization is the conversion of something into a physical form while reification is reification.

materialization

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The conversion of something into a physical form
  • (physics) The conversion of energy into mass

    • 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