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Refine vs Reification - What's the difference?

refine | reification |

As a verb refine

is to reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify.

As a noun reification is

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

refine

English

Verb

(refin)
  • To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
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  • To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
  • To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
  • To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
  • To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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