reification
nounEtymology
First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)
- derived from rēs
Definitions
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object…
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- Computer scientists found out how functional reification is in programming languages: they call it ‘object-oriented programming’ […].
The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable…
A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
- Contrary to Java, C++ and C# implement generics via reification, meaning that each specific version of a generic class, like List<String> is converted into a concrete class, either at compile time (C++) or at runtime (C#).
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The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and…
The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
The neighborhood
- synonymhypostatization
- synonymmaterialization
- synonymobjectification
- synonympathetic fallacy
- synonymthingification
- neighborreify
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA