reification
Example Sentences
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Everything is rated according to its monetary value and turned into an object of consumption — nothing appears to escape its regressive spiral of commodification, social atomization, and reification.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021
How do Kelly's role and Anglin's commentary help give us a more nuanced understanding of what's going on with Trump's use of reification?
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2020
The evolution of this idea finds its reification in his 22nd-century London, where nanotechnology makes all matter malleable.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2014
“I always thought souls were a mistaken reification of patterns of brain activity. You mean I really do have a soul?”
From Nature • Mar. 19, 2014
This happened simultaneously with the reification of many other forms of human praxis: religion, the judiciary, the military.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
