Reification

//ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən//

Synonyms for "reification" (18 found)

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Translations

20 translations across 14 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • материализиране noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 具象化 noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Finnish

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  • konkretisointi noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

French

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  • réification noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

German

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  • Reifikation noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)
  • Reifizierung noun (programming: Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one)
  • Verdinglichung noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)
  • Vergegenständlichung noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Greek

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  • υποστατοποίηση noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Hebrew

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  • חיפצון noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Korean

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  • 실재화 noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Macedonian

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  • опредметување noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Norwegian

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  • tingliggjøring noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Portuguese

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  • reificação noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Russian

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  • реификация noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Spanish

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  • cosificación noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)
  • reificación noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

Turkish

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  • cisimleştirme noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)
  • maddeleştirme noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)
  • soyutlaştırma noun (Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living)

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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.’

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Computer scientists found out how functional reification is in programming languages: they call it ‘object-oriented programming’ […].

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Reification swaps out a political problem for a scientific or technical one; it’s how, for example, the effects of unregulated tech oligopolies become “social media addiction,” how climate catastrophe caused by corporate greed becomes a “heat wave” — and, by the way, how the effect of struggles between labor and corporations combines with high energy prices to become “inflation.”

Source: wiktionary

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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