Thingification
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin
From thing + -ification, following thingify.
Full definition of thingification
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.