thingification

/θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"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.”"

From thing + -ification, following thingify.

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How do you pronounce thingification?

The recorded pronunciation is /θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/.

What does thingification mean?

The fact or process of turning something into a thing.

Where does thingification come from?

From thing + -ification, following thingify.

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