thingification
noun/θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/UK
Etymology
From thing + -ification, following thingify.
Definitions
The fact or process of turning something into a thing.
- 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.
- This is what happens when a country doesn’t see some people as fully human. It’s what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the “thingification of the Negro.”
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for thingification. 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