reification
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t silly, either; hope springs eternal from the human breast, and what’s a market if not the reification of people’s hopes and desires?
From The Verge
The reification of science into practical, problem-solving medicines and technologies drives economies and lifts up humanity.
From Nature
Dangerous demagogues use reification to position opposition as less than human, thereby denying their standing to criticize or object.
From Salon
Rousseau’s reification of “authenticity” can lead to the appeal of the guillotine, Nazism, white supremacy and Trumpism.
From Washington Post
It is the discourse of blood and soil that propelled an emotionally charged language of hate, reification, dehumanization and eventually mass murder.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
