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Reification

//ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən// noun

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Noun

1
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living. countable, uncountable
"The reification of art and religion, a symptom of their historical obsolescence, takes the form of their instrumentalization, their reduction to a mere use value. At this point they become ‘cultural goods’, writes Adorno, and ‘are no longer taken quite seriously by anybody.’"
2
representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality wordnet
3
The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object. countable, uncountable
4
regarding something abstract as a material thing wordnet
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A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one. countable, uncountable
"Contrary to Java, C++ and C# implement generics via reification, meaning that each specific version of a generic class, like List<String> is converted into a concrete class, either at compile time (C++) or at runtime (C#)."

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The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables. countable, uncountable

Etymology

First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)

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