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Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Ernst Mayr

Meaning of "reification" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REIFICATION

reification  [ˌriːɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REIFICATION

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Reification is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REIFICATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Reification

Reification generally refers to making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete. Reification may also refer to: ▪ Reification, the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is actually present ▪ Reification, the consideration, in Marxism, of an abstraction or an object as if it had living existence and abilities ▪ Reification, the creation of a data model ▪ Reification, the fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing ▪ Reification, the representation of facts and/or assertions ▪ Reification, the transformation, in natural-language processing, of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables ▪ Reification, the use of an idealized model to make inferences linking results from an actual model with experimental observations...

Definition of reification in the English dictionary

The definition of reification in the dictionary is the act or an instance of making real or concrete.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REIFICATION


allocation
ˌæləˈkeɪʃən
application
ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən
authentication
ɔːˌθentɪˈkeɪʃən
certification
ˌsɜːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
classification
ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
communication
kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən
dedication
ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
education
ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən
identification
aɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
indication
ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃən
location
ləʊˈkeɪʃən
medication
ˌmɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
modification
ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
notification
ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
publication
ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən
qualification
ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
relocation
ˌriːləʊˈkeɪʃən
specification
ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
vacation
vəˈkeɪʃən
verification
ˌvɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REIFICATION

rei
Reich
Reichenberg
Reichsmark
Reichsrat
Reichstag
Reid
reidentify
reif
reificatory
reified
reifier
reifies
reify
Reigate
reign
Reign of Terror
reigning
reignite
reignition

WORDS THAT END LIKE REIFICATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
association
citation
combination
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
evaluation
excitation
federation
formation
foundation
generation

Synonyms and antonyms of reification in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «reification» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REIFICATION

Find out the translation of reification to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of reification from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «reification» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

具体化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reificación
570 millions of speakers

English

reification
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

reification
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كأدوات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

материализация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reificação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

reification
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réification
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Reifikasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verdinglichung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

具体化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구체화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Reifikasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồ vật hoá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

reification
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुधारणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şeyleşme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

reificazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reifikacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

матеріалізація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reificare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πραγμοποίηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reifikasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förtingligande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tingliggjøring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of reification

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REIFICATION»

The term «reification» is regularly used and occupies the 73.854 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REIFICATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about reification

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QUOTES WITH «REIFICATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word reification.
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Ernst Mayr
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REIFICATION»

Discover the use of reification in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reification and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reification, Or, The Anxiety of Late Capitalism
The concept of reification helps describe the effects of capitalism on the human world.
Timothy Bewes, 2002
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Reification : A New Look At An Old Idea: A New Look At An ...
Honneth listens carefully to their criticism and provides a powerful defense of his position.
Frankfurt-am-Main Axel Honneth Professor Institut fur Sozialforschung, 2007
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Robots, Reasoning, and Reification
This book develops the concepts of reification from biologically based premises, and also covers the development into the necessary components and structures that can be used to provide equivalent capabilities for intelligent robots.
James P. Gunderson, Louise F. Gunderson, James P. Gunderson, 2008
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The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism
Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the work of Georg Lukâas, Herbert Marcuse and Frederic Jameson.
Kevin Floyd, 2009
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The Reification of the Political: Critical Theory and ...
Although understanding the relationship between capitalism and democracy in the present is a central concern of social justice activists worldwide, contemporary democratic theorists, by contrast, have tended to deemphasize the relationship ...
Anita S. Chari, 2008
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Descent Into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the ...
Descent into Discourse counters current intellectual fashion with an eloquent argument for the necessity to analyze and appreciate lived experience and the structures of subordination and power in any quest for historical meaning.
Bryan D. Palmer, 1990
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
of reification suggests that forms can take a life of their own, beyond their context of origin. They gain a degree of autonomy from the occasion and purposes of their production. Their meaningfulness is always potentially expanded and ...
Etienne Wenger, 1998
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Reification. and. the. Consciousness. of. the. Proletariat. To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. Marx: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. It is no accident that Marx should have begun with ...
Georg Lukács, György Lukács, 1971
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States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity
Lukacs is posited on the ground that Lukacs was trapped within a contradiction that could not reconcile reification with his own insurrectionary theoretical practice: For all the brilliance of his account of reification, for all the care he takes with it, ...
Keya Ganguly, 2001
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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and ...
Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the years.
Marcial González, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REIFICATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term reification is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lapavitsas Calls for Exit as the Only Strategy for Greek People
And it's the object of reification. Social relations become embodied in that thing. Blindly, mechanically, society subjects itself to the thing. We've known that for a ... «The Real News Network, Jul 15»
2
Alberta court says reification requires more than “general intent”
In Harvest Operations Corp v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 ABQB 327, the Alberta Court of the Queen's Bench denied an application for rectification, holding ... «Lexology, Jun 15»
3
How to apply optical illusions to Web UI design
Like Reification, invariance is another tactic our brains use to comprehend visuals despite glaring inconsistencies. Invariance shows that we recognize outlines ... «The Next Web, Mar 15»
4
Inequality and Fairness: Why Investors Should Care
... less wealth or with no wealth is to commit the sin of reification - the confusion of the object and the subject, of the past and the future, of the part and the whole. «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
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Disunited Kingdom: London in a world of its own
... liberals in the old sense must hope is answered in the affirmative. London has become not just concrete and steel but the reification of an idea: globalisation. «Financial Times, Mar 15»
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Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad
HA: As I see it, part of the problem is the result of a reification of Islam; and I think Muslims are as guilty of this as their counterparts. Your 1986 essay “The Idea of ... «Jadaliyya, Feb 15»
7
Gaza: Poetry after Auschwitz
"The more total society becomes," Adorno suggests, "the greater the reification of the mind and the more paradoxical its effort to escape reification on its own.". «Aljazeera.com, Aug 14»
8
Facebook manipulation yet more evidence of Silicon Valley's contempt
It is the reification of the individual - the transformation of the individual from subject to object, first as labour (as a capital resource) and more recently as a ... «Crikey, Jun 14»
9
Russia in the Crimea: The Thin Red Line of Sanity
... the cognitive dissonance which comes from contemplating nuclear powers in a stand-off in which reason (or its grandiose reification, Reason) seems tragically ... «eNCA, Mar 14»
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Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough Gallery
And though the theme of this series is “reification,” which suggests a solidification that might intend a termination of movement in the technical narrative as well, ... «NY Arts Magazine, Feb 14»

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