reification – English noun declension

English noun forms of reification

Noun: reification
Singularreification
Pluralreifications

Sample Sentences

  • The reification of art and religion, a symptom of their historical obsolescence, takes the form of their instrumentalization, their reduction to a mere use value. At this point they become ‘cultural goods’, writes Adorno, and ‘are no longer taken quite seriously by anybody.’ [2002, Timothy Bewes, Reification: Or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism, Verso, →ISBN, page 146:]
  • Computer scientists found out how functional reification is in programming languages: they call it ‘object-oriented programming’ […]. [2018, Pieter Seuren, Saussure and Sechehaye […] , BRILL, →ISBN, page 209:]
  • Reification swaps out a political problem for a scientific or technical one; it’s how, for example, the effects of unregulated tech oligopolies become “social media addiction,” how climate catastrophe caused by corporate greed becomes a “heat wave” — and, by the way, how the effect of struggles between labor and corporations combines with high energy prices to become “inflation.” [2022 September 20, Danielle Carr, “Mental Health Is Political”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • Contrary to Java, C++ and C# implement generics via reification, meaning that each specific version of a generic class, like List is converted into a concrete class, either at compile time (C++) or at runtime (C#). [2020, Marco Faella, Seriously Good Software: Code that works, survives, and wins, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 251:]

Etymology

First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”) See: German Nouns 'Verdinglichung', Latin Nouns 'rēs'.

Verbs referencing "reification"

Finnish Nouns reifikaatio.