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Reification vs Fetishism - What's the difference?

reification | fetishism |

As nouns the difference between reification and fetishism

is that reification is reification while fetishism is the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.

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

    fetishism

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fetichism (archaic);

    Noun

  • the belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
  • a form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.

    • See also

    * * English words suffixed with -ism