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Thingification vs Reification - What's the difference?

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Thingification is a synonym of reification.


As nouns the difference between thingification and reification

is that thingification is the fact or process of turning something into a thing; 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.

thingification

English

Noun

  • The fact or process of turning something into a thing; reification.
  • *2011 , (David Bellos), Is That a Fish in Your Ear? , Penguin 2012, p. 99:
  • *:Dictionaries alone aren't responsible for the thingification of natural languages, but they crystallized a peculiar modern view of what it means to have a language.

    • Synonyms

    * objectification * 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