Thingification
/θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
"Thingification" in a Sentence (2 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.
This is what happens when a country doesn’t see some people as fully human. It’s what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the “thingification of the Negro.”