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
