thingification
The fact or process of turning something into a thing.
Noun
- The fact or process of turning something into a thing.
- 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. - 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?,...
- 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.” - 2021 September 23, Charles M. Blow, quoting Martin...
Synonyms: objectification reification
Origin
From thing + -ification, following thingify.