See reification in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reificação"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "reifikacija",
"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"word": "реификация"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cosificación"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reificación"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"word": "cisimleştirme"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"word": "maddeleştirme"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living",
"word": "soyutlaştırma"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "programming: Process that makes out of a non-computable/addressable object a computable/addressable one",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Reifizierung"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"reification"
],
"word": "reification"
}
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