reification

About 0.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

hypostatization hypostatisation reism externalization concretum embodiment materialization make belief abstract abstraction

Often followed by

of and is in as that or to which

Word family

reifications