thingification
English
Etymology
From thing + -ification, following thingify.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
Noun
thingification
- The fact or process of turning something into a thing; reification.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin 2012, p. 99:
- Dictionaries alone aren't responsible for the thingification of natural languages, but they crystallized a peculiar modern view of what it means to have a language.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin 2012, p. 99:
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