Thingification
/θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The fact or process of turning something into a thing.
"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
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From thing + -ification, following thingify.