different between reification vs deification

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: r??f?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /??e??f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reification (countable and uncountable, plural reifications)

1. The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
2. The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
3. (programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.
4. (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

Synonyms

• hypostatization
• objectification
• pathetic fallacy
• thingification

Derived terms

• dereification

Derived terms

• reify

Translations

English

Etymology

French déification

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

deification (usually uncountable, plural deifications)

1. The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis.
2. Excessive praise.
3. A deified embodiment.
   • 2013, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice:

     We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.

Synonyms

• (act of deifying): divinisation or divinization; apotheosis

Translations

Anagrams

• edification