thingification

noun
/θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/UK

Etymology

From thing + -ification, following thingify.

  1. inherited from *þingą
  2. inherited from *þing
  3. inherited from þing
  4. inherited from thing
  5. suffixed as thingification — “thing + ification

Definitions

  1. 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