REIFICATION

reification, depersonalisation, depersonalization

(noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; “according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual”

hypostatization, hypostatisation, reification

(noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

reification (countable and uncountable, plural reifications)

The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.

(programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.

(linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

Synonyms

• hypostatization

• objectification

• pathetic fallacy

• thingification

Source: Wiktionary



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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