Definitions from Wiktionary (reification)
▸ noun: The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
▸ noun: The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
▸ noun: (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
▸ noun: (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
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▸ noun: The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
▸ noun: The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
▸ noun: (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
▸ noun: (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
Similar:
hypostatization,
hypostatisation,
reism,
externalization,
concretum,
embodiment,
materialization,
make belief,
abstract,
abstraction,
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