thingification — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The fact or process of turning something into a thing.

   Synonyms

   objectificationreification

   Examples

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   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.

   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.”