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REIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
Example:
according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual
Synonyms:
depersonalisation; depersonalization; reification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reification" is a kind of...):
objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Regarding something abstract as a material thing
Synonyms:
hypostatisation; hypostatization; reification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reification" is a kind of...):
objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)
Derivation:
reify (consider an abstract concept to be real)
