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
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.
• hypostatization
• objectification
• pathetic fallacy
• thingification
Source: Wiktionary
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
