thingification
English
Etymology
From thing + -ification, following thingify.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
Noun
thingification
- The fact or process of turning something into a thing.
- Synonyms: objectification, 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.
- 2021 September 23, Charles M. Blow, quoting Martin Luther King Jr., “Gwen Ifill Was Right About ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome’”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- 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.”