• Thingification

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(É™)n/

    Origin

    From thing + -ification, following thingify.

    Full definition of thingification

    Noun

    thingification

    1. 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.
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