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 fact that Lake Como is a co-op is further reification.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2019

The evolution of this idea finds its reification in his 22nd-century London, where nanotechnology makes all matter malleable.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 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